First language acquisition corpora in English and their influence on other languages

Abstract

This Traballo de Fin de Grao was initially conceived as an exploration on how corpora of language acquisition in English influenced (or not) corpora in other languages, namely in Spanish. The paper can be seen as having two differentiated parts. The first one provides the background for the topics that we wan to address, which can be grouped in two disciplines of the linguistic studies: Corpus Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (more specifically, first language acquisition). The second part presents an analysis of language acquisition corpora in English. The corpora are firstanalyzed and then confronted with one in Spanish. Chapter 3 functions as a pivot for the two parts. It brings together Corpus Linguistics and first language acquisition in Brian MacWhinney and Catherine Snow’s CHILDES project