Spanish verbs 'to be'

[Madalena Cruz-Ferreira]

Dear Jim,
 
I don't know of research on this for Spanish, but there is at least this one study about Portuguese:
Lemos, C. T. G. d. (1987). 'Ser' and 'estar' in Brazilian Portuguese: with particular reference to child language acquisition, Tübingen, Germany, Gunter Narr Verlag.
If this is of interest and you can't find the study elsewhere, I can give you a URL to a library from where you may be able to borrow it.

Madalena 

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Madalena Cruz-Ferreira 
Dept. English Language and Literature 
National University of Singapore 
ellmcf at nus.edu.sg 
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellmcf/ 
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Does anybody know of research into Spanish childrens' ability to employ the correct form of the two verbs 'to be' in Spanish (ser - permanent predicates; and estar - temporary predicates)?

Jim Russell
(Cambridge, UK)

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