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Torrens, V., Escobar, L., Gavarró, A., Gutiérrez, J. (2010) (eds.) Movement and Clitics: Adult and Child Grammar.

              Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Torrens, V., Escobar, L. (2006) (eds.) The acquisition of syntax  in Romance Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Del Río, M.J., Torrens, V. (2006) Language and Communication in Developmental Disorders. Madrid: Prentice-Hall.

Torrens, V. (2002) The acquisition of Tense and Agreement. Madrid: National University of Distance Learning.

Escobar, L. (1995) Left-hand satellites in Spanish. Utrecht: LOT Dissertation Series.

Torrens, V. (1995) The acquisition of syntax in Spanish and Catalan: The functional Category Inflection. University of Barcelona Press.

Papers

Gavarró, A., Torrens, V., Wexler, K. (2010) Object clitic omission: two language types. Language Acquisition,17(4): 192-219.

Escobar, Torrens, V. (2010) The effect of reflexive clitics on the aspectual properties of child language. In P. Guijarro-Fuentes, L. Domínguez (eds.) New directions in language acquisition: Romance languages in the generative perspective. Newcastle: Cambridge-Scholars Publishing.

Torrens, V., Escobar, L. (2009) Specific language impairment in Spanish and Catalan.In J. Grinstead (ed.) Perspectives on    typical and atypical Hispanic child language development. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

 Escobar, L., Torrens, V. (2008) The acquisition of universal quantifiers in Spanish L1. In P. Guijarro, (eds.) First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across languages and learners. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Escobar, L., Torrens, V. (2007) On the acquisition of clitic “se” and aspect in Spanish. In S. Baauw, J. van Kampen & M. Pinto (eds.) The Acquisition of Romance languages. Utrecht: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 3.

 Torrens, V., Escobar, L., Wexler, K. (2006) The Acquisition of experiencers in Spanish.

                   In V. Torrens, and L. Escobar (eds.) The acquisition of syntax  in Romance Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Torrens, V., Gavarró, A., Wexler, K. (2004) Feature checking and object clitic omission in child Spanish and Catalan.

                 In R. Bok-Bennema, B. Hollebrandse, B. Kampers-Manhe, P. Sleeman (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Escobar, L. (2001) The Age Factor in L2 Acquisition: An Empirical Investigation into the Choice of +/- Human Relative Pronouns by Spanish Learners of English and the Resetting of Parameters. Catalan Working Papers in Linguistics, 9, 11-35.

Torrens, V. (2001) The syntactic properties of Specific Language Impairment. Aloma, 9, 131-148.

 Escobar, L., Gavarró, A. (2000) The Acquisition of Catalan Clitics and its Implication for Complex Verb Structure. I. Lasser (ed.) The Process of Language Acquisition. Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag.

Escobar, L., Gavarró, A. (2000) The acquisition of clitics and strong pronouns in Catalan.

                 In A.B. Gerlach, J. Grijenhout (eds.) Clitics in Phonolgy, Morphology and Syntax. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Torrens, V. (2000). Models of syntax acquisition. Aloma, 7, 135-150.

Torrens, V., Wexler, K. (2000) The acquisition of clitic doubling in Spanish.

                 In C. Hamann, S. Powers (eds.) The acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 279-297.

Gibson, E., Pearlmutter, N., Torrens, V. (1999) Recency and Lexical Preferences in Spanish.    Memory and Cognition, 27, 603-611.

Escobar, L. (1997) Clitic left dislocation and other relatives. In E. Anagnostopoulou, H. van Riemsdijk, F. Zwarts (eds.)

                  Materials on left dislocation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

 Escobar, L. (1997) Spanish Relative Clauses and the Transfer Effect. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 13.

Torrens, V., Wexler, K. (1997) The acquisition of clitic doubling, dative experiencers, floating quantifiers and left dislocation in Spanish.  Journal of Formal, Computational and cognitive linguistics, 1, 30-45.

Torrens, V., Wexler, K. (1996) Clitic doubling in early Spanish. In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, Hughes, A. Zukowski (eds.) Boston University Conference on Language Development, 780-791.

Torrens, V. (1995).  The acquisition of the functional category of Inflection. In C. Schütze, J. Ganger and K. Broihier (eds.) Papers on Language Processing and Acquisition. Cambridge, MA. MIT Press.

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