The problem of pseudoclefts in French : intersection configurations and intervention in language acquisition
Soares-Jesel, Carla (Université Paris Cité Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Lobo, Maria (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Centro de Linguística da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Santos, Ana Lucia (Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa)

Data:	2022
Resum:	Intervention effects have been explored in the domain of language acquisition, suggesting that feature similarity between a moved element and an intervening constituent determines the occurrence of processing difficulties. A graded differentiation scale hierarchizing the different possible relations between feature sets defining the moved and the intervening constituents was suggested: disjunction>intersection>inclusion>identity (Belletti, Friedmann, Brunato & Rizzi 2012; Durrleman & Bentea 2021). It is a well-known fact that young children, unlike adults, have difficulties dealing with inclusion relations. In this article, we compare the comprehension of standard clefts and pseudoclefts by French monolingual children and argue that object pseudoclefts in French give rise to an intersection configuration, which we claim to be at the origin of milder difficulties for children. The paper provides additional empirical evidence in favour of the feature-based intervention theory of locality.
Nota:	Acknowledgments. This work was funded by LABEX EFL (ANR-10-LABX-0083), French National Research Agency, by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia as part of the project of Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (CLUL) (UIDB/00214/2020) and by Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CLUNL) (UIDB/03213/2020 and UIDP/03213/2020).
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Clefts ; Pseudoclefts ; Intervention ; Intersection ; Acquisition ; French
Publicat a:	Isogloss, Vol. 8 Núm. 5 (2022) , p. 1-22 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v8-n5-soaresjesel-lobo-santos
Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/isogloss/article/view/v8-n5-soaresjesel-lobo-santos
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.227

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