On the acquisition of Spanish psych predicates : when intervention makes extraction of a nominative wh-phrase harder
Mateu, Victoria (University of California, Los Angeles)

Data:	2022
Resum:	Spanish psych verbs like gustar ('like'/'please') have a non-agreeing dative experiencer that asymmetrically c-commands the agreeing nominative theme (e. g. , Cuervo 2003). Intervention accounts (Friedmann et al. 2009) thus predict children will experience difficulties with constructions that involve movement of the nominative-bearing argument past the dative DP. In this study we evaluate this prediction with a corpus study and an experimental study. Results from the corpus study show that children under the age of 7 underuse the DPnom-V-DPdat order (Theme-Verb-Experiencer) with gustar compared to adults, in line with our predictions. In a picture-matching task we tested 4-6-year-olds on d-linked wh-questions with actional and psych verbs. Results reveal that while children display the expected Nom > Dat wh-phrase extraction asymmetry with actional verbs, they show a Dat > Nom asymmetry with psych verbs. Moreover, children perform worse when the two arguments match in number features (i. e. , sg-sg) compared to when they mismatch (i. e. , sg-pl), but crucially, only in wh-questions that involve intervention. Our results cannot be fully explained under input-based accounts and are most in line with a structural account such as featural Relativized Minimality (Rizzi 2004).
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Wh-questions ; Psych verbs ; Intervention ; Acquisition ; Spanish
Publicat a:	Isogloss, Vol. 8 Núm. 4 (2022) , p. 1-27 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v8-n4-mateu
Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/isogloss/article/view/v8-n4-mateu
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.160
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.202284

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