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Lujan, Marta; Liliana Minaya – 1981
Because of the syntactic differences between Spanish and Quechua, Quechua-speaking children must make major word order adjustments to learn the Peruvian Spanish taught in school. This study investigates whether the order or time sequence in which these changes are adopted reflects any general constraint, or is in any way predicted by a theory of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Child Language, Children, Language Research