Aspects of the Acquisition of Object Control and ECM-Type Verbs in European Portuguese

Autor/inn/en	Santos, Ana Lúcia; Gonçalves, Anabela; Hyams, Nina
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 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
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 + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Portugiesischunterricht; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Frühe Kindheit; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Ausland
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