Quechua-Spanish bilingualism : interference and convergence in functional categories /

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Author / Creator:	Sánchez, Liliana.
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 187 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 35 Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 35.
Subject:	Bilingualism in children -- Peru. Languages in contact -- Peru. Quechua language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Spanish. Spanish language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Quechua. Interference (Linguistics) Language acquisition. Bilingualism in children. Interference (Linguistics) Language acquisition. Languages in contact. Peru. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11186667

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ISBN:	9789027295965 9027295964 1588114716 9781588114716 9027252947 9789027252944
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to language change in a language contact situation, and links convergence, a common set of feature values for the same functional category in both languages to the activation of features related to the informational structure of the sentence. These mechanisms are illustrated in detail by the presence o.
Other form:	Print version: Sánchez, Liliana. Quechua-Spanish bilingualism. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2003 1588114716 9781588114716

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