There and Back Again: An Acquisition Study

Autor/inn/en	Xu, Ting; Snyder, William
Titel	There and Back Again: An Acquisition Study
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 24 (2017) 1, S.3-26 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1080/10489223.2016.1268140
Schlagwörter	Phrase Structure; English; Syntax; Ambiguity (Semantics); Parent Child Relationship; Child Language; Language Acquisition; Young Children; Task Analysis; Computational Linguistics; Form Classes (Languages); Puppetry; Discourse Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Phrasenstruktur; English language; Englisch; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Frühe Kindheit; Aufgabenanalyse; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Analytischer Sprachbau; Puppenspiel; Diskursanalyse
Abstract	When "again" modifies an English goal-PP construction, the sentence is ambiguous between a repetitive and a restitutive reading. Interestingly, languages vary in whether their counterpart to English "again" permits a restitutive reading with goal-PP constructions (Beck 2005; Beck & Snyder 2001). This article explores how English-speaking children acquire restitutive "again" with goal-PP constructions, given the cross-linguistic variation. An experiment shows that 4- to 5-year-old children can understand these restitutive readings. However, examining the parental input of four children, we find that parental uses of restitutive "again" with goal-PP constructions are infrequent and (usually) ambiguous. We propose that in this case children can rely on more general evidence about the syntax of English goal-PP constructions, together with knowledge of a basic semantics for "again," to deduce the restitutive reading. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01