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
Format: article
Language:CA
EN
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2006
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/5a269178430e40b59d349d6d1045ea4f
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