Syntactic Structure and Information Structure: The Acquisition of Portuguese Clefts and "Be"-Fragments

Autor/inn/en	Lobo, Maria; Santos, Ana Lúcia; Soares-Jesel, Carla
Titel	Syntactic Structure and Information Structure: The Acquisition of Portuguese Clefts and "Be"-Fragments
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 23 (2016) 2, S. 142-174Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1080/10489223.2015.1067317
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Portuguese; Language Acquisition; Task Analysis; Language Processing; Syntax; Discourse Analysis; Intervention; Child Language; Semantics; Pragmatics; Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Computational Linguistics; Statistical Analysis; Preschool Children; Adults + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Portugiesischunterricht; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Aufgabenanalyse; Sprachverarbeitung; Diskursanalyse; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Semantik; Pragmalinguistik; Structural analysis; Strukturanalyse; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Statistische Analyse; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule
Abstract	This article investigates the acquisition of different types of clefts and of "be"-fragments in European Portuguese. We first present the main syntactic and discourse properties of different cleft structures and of "be"-fragments in European Portuguese, and we discuss how data from first language acquisition may contribute to evaluate different theoretical proposals. Based on data from spontaneous production and on data from an elicited production task, we argue that: (i) there is a clear asymmetry, stemming from intervention effects, between subject clefts and object/adjunct clefts, not only in spontaneous production but also in elicited data, which confirms previous findings on other structures involving A' dependencies; (ii) the production of elided clefts is easier to the children's processing system than the production of full standard clefts; (iii) acquisition data confirm the analysis of certain fragments (be-fragments) as elided clefts; (iv) the asymmetry between clefts featuring a wh-constituent and other clefts should be understood as late development of a particular type of anaphoric dependency. (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01