Hispanic Child Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. Overview of papers -- 3. Concluding Remarks -- References -- Diverse learning conditions and input characteristics -- Syllable-final /s/ lenition and the acquisition of plural morphology in Spanish-speaking children -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Plural Morphology in Mexican and Chilean Spanish -- 3. Acquisition of plural morphology -- 4. Experiment 1: Production of plural definites by Chilean and Mexican adults -- 4.1 Subjects -- 4.2 Materials and procedure -- 4.3 Analysis -- 4.4 Results -- 5. Experiment 2: Child comprehension of plural morphology in definite noun phrases -- 5.1 Subjects -- 5.2 Materials and procedure -- 5.3 Results -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The article paradigm in Spanish-speaking children with SLI in language contact situations -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Spanish NP system - A focus on articles -- 1.2 Article use in Spanish-speaking children with SLI -- 1.3 Language contact and the article paradigm in Spanish -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Data collection procedures -- 2.2.1 General procedures -- 2.2.2 Speech samples -- 2.2.3 Analyses of the spontaneous samples -- 2.2.4 Experimental task -- 2.2.5 Reliability -- 2.2.6 Data analysis -- 3. Results and discussion -- 3.1 Experimental task -- 3.2 Spontaneous speech data -- 3.3 Article paradigms: SLI -- 3.4 AGK -- 3.5 HPK -- 3.6 PSK -- 3.7 RGK -- 4. General discussion and conclusions -- 4.1 Patterns of article use -- 4.2 The article paradigm in Spanish-speaking children with SLI in language contact situations -- 4.3 Individual differences in performance across the children with SLI -- 4.4 Limitations of the study and directions for future research -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Development in early Basque-Spanish language mixing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus and methodology -- 3. Some predictions about Basque-Spanish LM -- 3.1 Language dominance -- 3.2 Development -- 3.3 Grammar of mixing -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Early Basque-Spanish language mixing -- 4.2 Extra-sentential Mixing -- 4.3 Intra-sentential Mixing: mixed phrases -- 4.4 Language mixing in adult speech -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- APPENDIX I. Mikel's Language Mixing. Context language: Basque. -- APPENDIX 2. Mikel's Language Mixing. Context language: Spanish. -- The developing syntax and semantics of determiner phrases -- Context and the Scalar Implicatures of Indefinites in Child Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Scalar implicatures: From Neo-Gricean to semantic approaches -- 3. Unos and algunos: two existential determiners with contrasting properties -- 4. When scalar implicatures are not possible -- 5. The development of semantics and pragmatics -- 5. Experiment 1 -- 5.1 Methods -- 5.2 Results -- 6. Experiment 2 -- 6.1 Methods -- 6.2 Results -- 7. Discussion -- References -- Early determination -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The distribution of determiners -- 3. The acquisition of determiners -- 3.1 DP acquisition -- 3.2 Previous studies of determiner acquisition in Spanish -- 4. Hypotheses -- 5. Methods -- 6. Results -- 6.1 Contribution of lexicon and semantics: Analysis by NP type -- 6.2 Contribution of syntax to determiner acquisition: Analysis by function -- 6.3 Truncated NPs -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- The developing syntax of the verb phrase -- Before grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Extending UBT proposals to early clause combining -- 1.1.1 The adult models -- 1.2 Methodology -- 1.2.1 Complexity in constructions with querer 'want' as a matrix verb -- 2. Analysis -- 2.1 The construction pieces -- 2.1.1 The main verb.

2.1.2 The infinitive verb frames -- 2.1.3 The subjunctive frames -- 2.1.4 Construction frames with a linking mark que 'that' -- 2.1.5 Summing up on the construction pieces -- 2.2 The combinations -- 2.2.1 The significance of the first complex constructions -- 2.2.2 Constructing more sequences -- 2.2.3 New sequences -- 2.2.4 Summing up on the combinations -- 3. Discussion -- List of abbreviations -- References -- Subjects, verb classes and word order in child Catalan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Data source and statistical methods -- 4. Subject distribution across verbal classes -- 5. Subjects in romance and the issue of maturation -- References -- The development of inflectional morphology -- Relationships between linguistic and behavioral measures during development -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Parent report for Galician children -- 3. Early language and later linguistic and cognitive development: Validity of the CDI -- 4. Early language development and the emergence of a Theory of Mind -- 4.1 Study aims -- 4.2 Method -- 4.2.1 Participants -- 4.2.2 Instruments -- 4.2.3 Procedures -- 5. Results -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Temporal interface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Spontaneous production studies of nonfinite verbs in Southern Romance -- 3. Elicited production studies of child Spanish -- 4. Infinitives and bare stems -- 5. Child Spanish and the unique checking constraint -- 6. Finiteness marking in Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment -- 7. The grammaticality choice task -- 7.1 Methods -- 7.1.1 Participants -- 7.1.2 Procedures -- 8. Results -- 9. Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Specific language impairment in Spanish & Catalan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two accounts for syntactic deficits in SLI -- 2.1 The extended optional infinitive stage.

2.2 The grammatical agreement deficit hypothesis -- 3. The present study -- 3.1 Predictions -- 3.2 Participants -- 3.3 Spanish and Catalan grammar -- 4. Results -- 4.1 The acquisition of noun morphology -- 4.2 The acquisition of verb morphology -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Aknowledgements -- References -- Variability in the grammatical profiles of Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment -- 1. Grammatical characteristics of Spanish SLI -- 2. Argument structure -- 2.1 Method -- 2.1.1 Participants -- 2.1.2 Participant selection criteria -- 2.1.3 Materials -- 2.1.4 Procedures -- 2.1.5 Results -- 2.1.6 Cases summaries of children with SLI -- 2.1.7 Discussion -- References -- Index -- The series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders.