The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages

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The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Contributors
The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages
Introduction
I. Clitics, determiners and pronouns
The production of SE and SELF anaphors in Spanish and Dutch children
1. Introduction
2. Reflexivity in and outside narrow syntax
3. Experiments
3.1. Method
3.2. Participants
4. Results
4.1. Dutch results
4.2. Spanish results
5. Discussion
5.1. Reflexivity and the production of se, zich and zichzelf
5.2. Spanish children's production of strong reflexives
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
On the acquisition of ambiguous Valency-Marking Morphemes
1. Introduction
2. Hypotheses on the acquisition of argument structure
3. French SE-cliticization and argument structure alternations
4. Method
4.1. Speech production corpora
4.2. Experimental task
5. Results
5.1. Order of acquisition of SE-constructions
5.2. Manifestations of overgeneralizations of ASA
5.3. Order of acquisition of SE and be-passive
6. Discussion
Notes
References
Definite and bare noun contrasts in child Catalan
1. Introduction
2. The syntax and semantics of bare nouns
2.1. Bare objects
2.2. Genericity across languages: the status of bare nouns
2.3. Bare nouns in Catalan
3. Assumptions on acquisition
3.1. The emergence of DP in child grammar
4. An experiment on the contrast between bare nouns and definite DPs
4.1. Methods
4.2. Participants
4.3. Results
5. Conclusions
Notes
References
Null arguments in monolingual children
1. Introduction
2. Previous studies comparing the acquisition of object clitics in French and Italian
3. The cross-sectional study
3.1. The test
3.2. Participants
3.3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Prenominal elements in French-Germanic bilingual first language acquisition
1. Introduction
2. Possibility of cross-linguistic interference
2.1. Adult system
2.2. Hulk and Müller (2000): Conditions for cross-linguistic influence
3. Methodology
4. The acquisition of the determiner in adjective-noun combinations
4.1. Monolingual acquisition
4.2. Bilingual acquisition
4.3. Discussion
5. The acquisition of the attributive adjective
5.1. Monolingual acquisition
5.2. Bilingual acquisition
5.3. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
Appendix
Prenominal and postnominal adjectives in Daniel
II. Verbs, auxiliaries and inflection
A cross-sectional study on the use of ``be'' in early Italian
1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1. Subjects and linguistic corpora
2.2. Group composition
2.3. Criteria of analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
Notes
References
Patterns of copula omission in Italian child language
1. Introduction
2. The Truncation hypothesis
3. The data
3.1. Copula omission
3.2. The Wh-constraint
3.3. Auxiliary data
4. Discussion
4.1. Omission as evidence for truncation
4.2. Truncation & full competence
5. Conclusions
Notes
References
Looking for the universal core of the RI stage
1. Introduction
2. RIs
3. The Imperative Analogue Hypothesis
3.1. Italian and German
3.2. Dutch and Icelandic
3.3. Spanish and Catalan
3.4. Hungarian and Slovenian
4. Is the RI analogue really an imperative form?
4.1. The 3D Hypothesis
4.2. The Underspecification (DM) Hypothesis
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
The acquisition of experiencers in Spanish L1 and the external argument requirement hypothesis
1. Introduction
2. The structure of Experiencers
2.1. Belletti and Rizzi (1988)
2.2. Torrego's (1998) object dependencies in Spanish
2.3. Phases and Wexler's hypothesis for syntactic development
2.4. Psych verbs and left-dislocation structures
3. Implications of the ACDH and EARH for child language
4. The experiments
4.1. Experiment 1
4.2. Experiment 2
5. Discussion
Note
References
Appendix. Items for experiments
Experiment 1
Experiment 2
Early operators and late topic-drop/pro-drop
1. The acquisition of grammatical features
1.1. Jakobson's order of acquisition steps
1.2. Wexler's Optional Infinitives
1.3. Rizzi's Truncations
1.4. Conflict of Reduction Principles
2. The acquisition of I-marking and D-marking
3. Overlap between the Reduction Principles
4. Rizzi's Truncations for the three different predicate types
4.1. Examples of the predicate types
4.2. Characteristics of the predicate types
5. Type b and type c predicate types
5.1. Type b operator predicates
5.2. Type c: Discourse topic-oriented predicates
5.3. Rise of type c predicates: Topic-drop (Spec,C ø)
6. Conjecture: Type c Pro-Drop/Agreement is late
7. Conclusions
Notes
References
Appendix 1: Input for types a-b-c (Dutch/Italian)
Appendix 2: Input for types a-b (Dutch/Italian)
Appendix 3: Percentages for imperative type a-b (Dutch/Italian)
III. Movement and resumptive pronouns
The acquisition of A- and A'-bound pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese
1. Introduction
2. Previous studies on the acquisition of pronouns
3. Pronouns as elsewhere elements
3.1. Brazilian Portuguese
3.2. Elsewhere elements and reference-set computation
4. The acquisition of pronouns
4.1. Method
4.2. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
Acquiring long-distance wh-questions in L1 Spanish
1. Introduction
2. Wh-movement options cross-linguistically
3. A few remarks about Spanish
4. Previous language acquisition findings: Thornton (1990) and van Kampen (1997)
4.1. Non-adult questions are not performance errors
5. The experiment
5.1. Design and procedure
5.2. Results
5.3. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
Appendix I: Sample corresponding to the question
Appendix II: Maider's subject extraction questions
Evidence from L1 acquisition for the syntax of wh-scope marking in French
1. Introduction
2. Wh-in-situ in French
3. Partial wh-movement in first and second language acquisition of English LD questions
3.1. Thornton (1990): L1 English acquisition of LD wh-questions
3.2. Gutierrez (forthcoming): L2/L3 English acquisition of LD wh-questions
4. The experiment: Long-distance wh-questions in L1 acquisition of French
4.1. Participants, method and results
4.2. Partial wh-movement questions in L1 acquisition of French
5. Direct dependency scope marking strategies: Wh-in-situ in French and partial wh-movement in L1 French
6. Indirect dependency wh-scope marking strategies in L1 French
6.1. Indirect dependency in Hindi
6.2. Indirect dependency in L1 French
6.3. Direct or indirect dependency?
7. Acquisition stages
7.1. Wh-in-situ as the least marked strategy?
7.2. Long-distance dependencies
Notes
References
IV. Syntax/discourse interface
Acquisition of focus marking in European Portuguese
1. Introduction
2. The debate on the nature of focus
3. Contribution from acquisition for the debate on focus
4. Experiment on the comprehension of focus marking strategies
4.1. Methodology
4.2. Expected results
4.3. Results
4.4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Notes
References
Subject pronouns in bilinguals
1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Results
4. Discussion
4.1. Separated systems and yet influence
4.2. Features opposition and markedness
4.3. Syntax, discourse and cognition
4.4. Bilinguals and maturation
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
V. L2 acquisition
Is the semantics/syntax interface vulnerable in L2 acquisition?
1. Mood selection
1.1. Sentential arguments
1.2. Relative clauses
2. L2 acquisition of modal contrasts
3. Method
4. Results
4.1. Grammaticality judgment task
4.2. Truth-Value Judgment task
5. Discussion and conclusion
Notes
References
The development of the syntax-discourse interface
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
2.1. Word order distribution and the interfaces
2.2. L2 acquisition at the syntax-discourse interface: Word order
2.3. L2 acquisition at the lexicon-syntax interface: Word order
3. Method
3.1. Subjects
3.2. Experimental design
3.3. Instrument
3.4. Procedure
3.5. Data analysis
3.6. Predictions
4. Results
4.1. Neutral contexts with unaccusative verbs
4.2. Neutral contexts with unergative verbs
4.3. Presentationally focused-subject contexts with unaccusative verbs
4.4. Presentationally focused-subject contexts with unergative verbs
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
Appendix
Beyond the syntax of the Null Subject Parameter
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
2.1. Some history
2.2. Discourse pragmatic properties of subjects
2.3. Previous L2 studies of the Null Subject Parameter in Spanish
2.4. The present study
3. Method
3.1. Participants
3.2. Tasks
4. Results
4.1. Morphosyntax
4.2. Discourse-pragmatics
5. Discussion
Notes
References
Appendix
Intermediate
Advanced
Near-native
Native speaker control
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