Costa, João, Fernandes, Bruno, Vaz, Stéphanie et al. (1 more author) (2016) (Pseudo-)Relatives and prepositional infinitival constructions in the acquisition of European Portuguese. Probus. pp. 119-143. ISSN 0921-4771
Abstract
The literature on attachment preferences in relative clauses discusses a crosslinguistic difference in attachment, which, as Fodor (1998a) remarks, poses problems for acquisition. Following previous claims on the universality of the parser, and attempts to explain crosslinguistic variation in attachment with properties of the languages, in particular the availability of pseudo-relatives, we analyzed children's performance in attaching preferences with relative clauses and prepositional infinitival constructions and found that their preferences in parsing are guided by independently needed and crosslinguistically robust principles.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | Language Acquisition,Sentence comprehension,Attachment,Portuguese,Prepositional Infinitival Constructions,Relative Clauses |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Language and Linguistic Science (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2017 17:00 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 13:29 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/probus-2016-0006 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1515/probus-2016-0006 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:112270 |