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Selected Proceedings of the Romance Turn IV Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Languages
Author(s): Sandrine Ferré (Editor), Philippe Prévost (Editor), Laurice Tuller (Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: March 14, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 325 pages
- ISBN-10: 144383498X
- ISBN-13: 9781443834988
Book Description
This edited collection contains 13 selected papers presented at the Romance Turn IV conference, which was held at Université François Rabelais, Tours, France, in 2010. The volume reflects the diversity of interests of the contributors, not only in the learning contexts investigated (first language acquisition, typical or impaired, and bilingualism), but also in the linguistic properties being explored, in both syntax and phonology, and the languages under examination (work not only on Romance languages such as French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish, but also comparative studies involving Basque, Modern Greek, and Cypriot Greek). Such a variety allows for multiple comparisons, which corresponds to the objective of the Romance Turn: providing an interactive platform for exchanges between researchers on the acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective. The volume is divided into two parts: the first part includes two papers presented as plenaries, one on L1 acquisition of morphophonology in European Portuguese (by M. João Freitas) and one on L1 acquisition of relative clauses in Italian (by Adriana Belletti), while the second part comprises 11 papers by Nikos Amvrazis, Isabel García del Real and Maria José Ezeizabarrena, Giuliana Giusti, Kleanthes Grohmann, Elaine Grolla, Virginia Hill and Mihaela Pirvulescu, Tihana Kraš, Juana Liceras, Anca Sevcenco and Larisa Avram, Katérina Palasis, and Francesca Volpato.
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About the Author
Sandrine Ferre has been a Lecturer in Linguistics at François Rabelais University in Tours, France, since she completed her PhD in Phonology. She is also a member of the National Institute for Health and Medical Research Unit Brain and Imaging . Her research interest focuses on phonological acquisition in typical and atypical contexts.
