Speculations About Early Syntax : the Production of Wh-questions by Normally Developing French Children and French Children with SLI
Hamann, Cornelia (University of Oldenburg. Department of English)
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2006 |
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This paper examines the spontaneous (and elicited) production of questions in 3 typically developing French children (1;8-2;10) and 11 French children with SLI (3;10-9;1). French has three types of constituent questions (Wh-in-situ, fronted Wh without inversion, fronted Wh with inversion) graded in syntactic complexity, allowing detailed investigation of syntactic competence. The results show that both groups of children greatly prefer Wh-in-situ over fronted Wh and avoid inversion. Infinitives are extremely rare in all questions, whereas null subjects are rare in fronted Wh-questions but occur in in-situ questions in typically developing children. SLI children do not produce infinitives in Wh-questions, but allow null subjects in all question types. The elicitation experiment confirmed these trends, though the SLI children had significantly more difficulties with movement than the normal children. A tentative account uses the truncation approach and the assumption that young children avoid movement by deriving in-situ questions with a Q-element in the head position of an Interrogative Phrase entering into an Agree relation with the element left in-situ. SLI children might extend this economic analysis to all Wh-questions. |
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Anglès |
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Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Materia: |
Preguntes en francès ;
Qu- traslladat ;
Qu- in situ ;
Complexitat sintàctica ;
Infinitius ;
Subjectes nuls ;
Trasllat ;
Econòmic ;
Nens amb desenvolupament normal ;
Nens amb transtorn específic del llenguatge ;
French questions ;
Fronted Wh ;
Wh-in-situ ;
Syntactic complexity ;
Infinitives ;
Null subjects ;
Movement ;
Economic ;
Typically developing children ;
SLI children |
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Catalan journal of linguistics, V. 5 (2006) p. 143-189, ISSN 2014-9719 |
Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/v5-hamann
Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/CatalanJournal/article/view/51531
DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.82
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