The Acquisition and Learning of Noun Modifiers in the Written Discourse of Students of Spanish as a First and Second Language

In the following article, I present a study about the acquisition & learning of noun modifiers (adjectives, prepositional phrases, determiners) in the written discourse of American students who are learning Spanish as a foreign language, & Spanish children who are acquiring Spanish as their...

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Published in:Revista electrónica de lingüística aplicada 2008-01, Vol.7, p.45-54
Main Author: Bartolome Rodriguez, Rocio
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
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Summary:In the following article, I present a study about the acquisition & learning of noun modifiers (adjectives, prepositional phrases, determiners) in the written discourse of American students who are learning Spanish as a foreign language, & Spanish children who are acquiring Spanish as their first language. For this study, I have applied the syntactic maturity indexes developed by Hunt (1970) for the English language & adapted by Veliz (1999) for the Spanish language. Adapted from the source document
ISSN:1885-9089
1885-9089