ser-estar-be study

[Nan Ratner]

We actually had a pre-candidacy paper written on this topic using Mexican Spanish-speaking monolingual children many years ago by Catalina Johnson. I can try to find the hard copy and send it. We have lost track of Ms. Johnson. If I find the copy, I will send you info off list to get your mailing address.

Nan Ratner

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>>> Carmen Silva-Corvalan <csilva at usc.edu> 11/29/06 12:46 PM >>>
I am currently examining data from a Spanish-English bilingual infant (1;6-3;6) to study the acquisition of the opposition “ser-estar” (with a secondary focus on “be”). I have found a good number of studies of “ser-estar” acquisition by L2 adult learners but nothing on early acquisition by developing bilingual or Spanish monolingual children (one exception is a study being done in Mexico under the direction of Cecilia Rojas Nieto).

I would be grateful for any bibliographic suggestions on the acquisition of “ser-estar-be” by bilingual infants, and “ser-estar” by monolingual infants.

Carmen Silva-Corvalán

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Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
University of Southern California