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Author: Teixeira, Luciana
Subjects: *LANGUAGE acquisition, *ADJECTIVES (Grammar), *PORTUGUESE language, *FOREIGN language education, *LEXICAL grammar, *GENERATIVE grammar, *LEXICOLOGY, *VOCABULARY, *EDUCATION
Abstract: This paper focuses on the delimitation of adjectives as a lexical category by children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese. It reconciles a psycholinguistic approach to language acquisition with a minimalist conception of language (Chomsky, 1995-2001). The results of the experiments reported here are compatible with the working hypothesis, namely, that children make use of syntactic and morphological information in the delimitation of adjectives as a lexical category. They also reveal that the semantic properties of derivation affixes forming adjectives are already available by the age of two. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published: 2009

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