@article{HernándezSánchez:64819, author = "Hernández Sánchez, Isabel and Ibarretxe Antuñano, Iraide", title = "{La adquisición temprana de los eventos de colocación en español}", year = "2017", note = "This paper deepens the categorization and expression of placement events through an empirical study on early acquisition (3; 6-5; 14 years) of Spanish as a first language. This research is based on previous studies on the coding of placement events in Spanish in adults (Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2012, Cadierno et al 2016, Ibarretxe-Antuñano et al 2016) and the basic principles of the Thinking to Speak theory (Slobin 1991; 1996; Berman and Slobin 1994). The main purpose is to verify if the lexicalization patterns proposed for placement events in Spanish in adult informants are shown in the description of these events in children of different ages. For this reason, they describe how these events are encoded by children at an early age, to establish what are the differences and similarities within groups (children, children and adults). The data comes from a total of 30 children in pre-school education aged (10 of each age) between 3, 6 and 5, 14 years, whose mother tongue is Spanish. In addition, there is a control group of 10 adult native speakers. The data have been obtained from two experimental tools (10 videos from the "PUT task" developed at the Institute of Psycholinguistics of Max Planck (Nijmegen, Netherlands) (Bowerman et al., 2004) and theatrical adaptation of 10 placement events with everyday objects). The main results of the study conclude that the characteristic lexicalization patterns of placement events in Spanish in adult speakers are already shown at very early ages.", }