After the Null Subject Parameter: Acquisition of the Null-Overt Contrast in Spanish

Autor/inn/en	Forsythe, Hannah; Greeson, Daniel; Schmitt, Cristina
Titel	After the Null Subject Parameter: Acquisition of the Null-Overt Contrast in Spanish
Quelle	In: Language Learning and Development, 18 (2022) 2, S.171-200 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Forsythe, Hannah)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1547-5441
DOI	10.1080/15475441.2021.1941967
Schlagwörter	Spanish; Form Classes (Languages); Language Variation; Foreign Countries; Language Acquisition; Preferences; Preschool Children; Play; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Low Income Groups; Grammar; Computational Linguistics; Mexico (Mexico City) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spanisch; Analytischer Sprachbau; Sprachenvielfalt; Ausland; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Spiel; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Grammatik; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik
Abstract	In many so-called canonical null subject languages, null and overt subject pronouns have contrasting referential preferences: null subjects tend to maintain reference to the preceding subject while overt pronominal subjects do not. We propose that children acquire this contrast by initially restricting their attention to 1st and 2nd person pronouns, whose reference is simpler to infer compared to 3rd person pronouns. We provide supporting evidence from spontaneous production and comprehension in Mexico City Spanish, showing that (i) the null/overt contrast is in principle acquirable from exclusively observing the referential preferences of 1st and 2nd person subject pronouns in caretaker speech; (ii) children themselves condition subject pronoun expression on pronoun reference in the 1st and 2nd persons before doing so in the 3rd person; and (iii) children use the null/overt contrast in comprehension at a similar age when they begin making this distinction in production. (As Provided).
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