Word Order, Referential Expression, and Case Cues to the Acquisition of Transitive Sentences in Italian

Autor/inn/en	Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Serratrice, Ludovica
Titel	Word Order, Referential Expression, and Case Cues to the Acquisition of Transitive Sentences in Italian
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 42 (2015) 1, S.1-31 (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000913000421
Schlagwörter	Word Order; Child Language; Italian; Language Acquisition; Form Classes (Languages); Cues; Language Processing; Sentence Structure; Language Research; Video Technology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wortfolge; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Italienisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Analytischer Sprachbau; Stichwort; Sprachverarbeitung; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Sprachforschung
Abstract	In Study 1 we analyzed Italian child-directed-speech (CDS) and selected the three most frequent active transitive sentence frames used with overt subjects. In Study 2 we experimentally investigated how Italian-speaking children aged 2;6, 3;6, and 4;6 comprehended these orders with novel verbs when the cues of animacy, gender, and subject-verb agreement were neutralized. For each trial, children chose between two videos (e.g., horse acting on cat versus cat acting on horse), both involving the same action. The children aged 2;6 comprehended S + object-pronoun + V (SO[subscript PRO]V) significantly better than S + V + object-noun (SVO[subscript NOUN]). We explain this in terms of cue collaboration between a low cost cue (CASE) and the FIRST ARGUMENT = AGENT cue which we found to be reliable 76% of the time. The most difficult word order for all age groups was the object-pronoun + V + S (O[subscript PRO]VS). We ascribe this difficulty to cue conflict between the two most frequent transitive frames found in CDS, namely V + object-noun and object-pronoun + V. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10