Determiner use in Italian Swedish and Italian German children: Do Swedish and German represent the same parameter setting?

In this article we compare the acquisition of determiners in bilingual children acquiring Italian simultaneously with German or Swedish. We are concerned with cross-linguistic differences in the rate of acquisition and we discuss in particular the Nominal Mapping Parameter, a model according to whic...

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Main Authors: Tanja Kupisch, Petra Bernardini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2008-02-01
Series:Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/130