| Автор | PÉREZ-LEROUX, ANA TERESA |
| Дата выпуска | 1998 |
| dc.description | Although children acquire Spanish subjunctive morphology early in the process of language acquisition, they only master mood selection in a staged process that lasts for several years. This paper examines the possibility that the acquisition of subjunctive mood selection in particular syntactic contexts is constrained by cognitive development in the area of representational theory of mind. Acquisition of the epistemic aspects of the semantics of subjunctive are shown to be associated with the understanding of false beliefs, a landmark development in childrenʼs cognition. Twenty-two Spanish speaking children between the ages of 3;5 and 6;11 participated in an elicited production study designed to test whether childrenʼs ability to produce subjunctive relative clauses was related to their ability to pass a false belief task. Results indicate a strong correlation between childrenʼs ability to use the subjunctive mood in relative clauses and their capacity for understanding false beliefs. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | The acquisition of mood selection in Spanish relative clausesI would like to thank Thomas Roeper, Jill deVilliers, Judith Kroll, Jorge Guitart and Lisa Reed for helpful comments and discussion of the ideas presented here. I also thank two anonymous reviewers for the JCL for their comments and suggestions. This work also benefited by discussion from audiences at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the IASCL congress at Istambul. Data collection was conducted with the support of a RGSO grant from the Pennsylvania State University. Finally, I also thank the children, teachers and parents of the Hogar Montessori de Santo Domingo, without whom this work would have been not only impossible, but unthinkable. |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-7602 |
| Print ISSN | 0305-0009 |
| Журнал | Journal of Child Language |
| Том | 25 |
| Первая страница | 585 |
| Последняя страница | 604 |
| Аффилиация | PÉREZ-LEROUX ANA TERESA; Pennsylvania State University |
| Выпуск | 3 |
