Morphology vs. Word Order in the Acquisition of V-to-I

This article presents an experiment on children’s sensitivity to two phenomena associated with V-to-I: morphology and word order. It is shown that children are highly sensitive to morphology, but accept ungrammatical sentences in which verb and adverb are in the wrong order. These results on childre...

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Main Authors:	João Costa, João Loureiro
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Language:	CA EN
Published:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2006
Subjects:	V-to-I morphology adverb European Portuguese trigger Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5a269178430e40b59d349d6d1045ea4f2021-11-27T10:48:50ZMorphology vs. Word Order in the Acquisition of V-to-I10.5565/rev/catjl.781695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/5a269178430e40b59d349d6d1045ea4f2006-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/78https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719This article presents an experiment on children’s sensitivity to two phenomena associated with V-to-I: morphology and word order. It is shown that children are highly sensitive to morphology, but accept ungrammatical sentences in which verb and adverb are in the wrong order. These results on children’s accuracy contrast with those reported for production. An analysis is proposed for explaining this asymmetry, discussing the notion of trigger in acquisition.João CostaJoão LoureiroUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleV-to-ImorphologyadverbEuropean PortuguesetriggerPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2006)
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description	This article presents an experiment on children’s sensitivity to two phenomena associated with V-to-I: morphology and word order. It is shown that children are highly sensitive to morphology, but accept ungrammatical sentences in which verb and adverb are in the wrong order. These results on children’s accuracy contrast with those reported for production. An analysis is proposed for explaining this asymmetry, discussing the notion of trigger in acquisition.
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title	Morphology vs. Word Order in the Acquisition of V-to-I
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Morphology vs. Word Order in the Acquisition of V-to-I

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