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Autor/inn/en | Santos, Ana Lúcia; Gonçalves, Anabela; Hyams, Nina |
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Titel | Aspects of the Acquisition of Object Control and ECM-Type Verbs in European Portuguese |
Quelle | In: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 23 (2016) 3, S.199-233 (35 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1048-9223 |
DOI | 10.1080/10489223.2015.1067320 |
Schlagwörter | Portuguese; Verbs; Language Acquisition; Young Children; Adults; Sentences; Bias; Syntax; Foreign Countries; Portugal |
Abstract | We investigate the acquisition of sentential complementation under causative, perception, and object control verbs in European Portuguese, a language rich in complement types, including the typologically marked inflected infinitives. We tested 58 children between 3 and 5 years of age and 24 adults on a sentence completion task. The results support two main hypotheses concerning children's initial biases in representing complement structure. The first pertains to argument structure--a verb selects only one internal (propositional) argument ("Single Argument Selection Hypothesis"), the other to syntactic structure--propositional complements are complete functional complements ("Complete Functional Complement Hypothesis"). These initial biases lead children to avoid raising-to-object and object control structures, in favor of finite complements and inflected infinitive complements, the latter appearing in both target and nontarget contexts. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2020/1/01 |