Speculations About Early Syntax: The Production of Wh-questions by Normally Developing French Children and French Children with SLI

This paper examines the spontaneous (and elicited) production of questions in 3 typically developing French children (1;8-2;10) and 11 French children with SLI (3;10-9;1). French has three types of constituent questions (Wh-in-situ, fronted Wh without inversion, fronted Wh with inversion) graded in...

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Autor principal:	Cornelia Hamann
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2006
Materias:	French questions fronted Wh Wh-in-situ syntactic complexity infinitives null subjects Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d4cf4d289c3f4c479291deb98dc154ae2021-11-27T10:47:48ZSpeculations About Early Syntax: The Production of Wh-questions by Normally Developing French Children and French Children with SLI10.5565/rev/catjl.821695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/d4cf4d289c3f4c479291deb98dc154ae2006-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/82https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719This paper examines the spontaneous (and elicited) production of questions in 3 typically developing French children (1;8-2;10) and 11 French children with SLI (3;10-9;1). French has three types of constituent questions (Wh-in-situ, fronted Wh without inversion, fronted Wh with inversion) graded in syntactic complexity, allowing detailed investigation of syntactic competence. The results show that both groups of children greatly prefer Wh-in-situ over fronted Wh and avoid inversion. Infinitives are extremely rare in all questions, whereas null subjects are rare in fronted Wh-questions but occur in in-situ questions in typically developing children. SLI children do not produce infinitives in Wh-questions, but allow null subjects in all question types. The elicitation experiment confirmed these trends, though the SLI children had significantly more difficulties with movement than the normal children. A tentative account uses the truncation approach and the assumption that young children avoid movement by deriving in-situ questions with a Q-element in the head position of an Interrogative Phrase entering into an Agree relation with the element left in-situ. SLI children might extend this economic analysis to all Wh-questions.Cornelia HamannUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleFrench questionsfronted WhWh-in-situsyntactic complexityinfinitivesnull subjectsPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2006)
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description	This paper examines the spontaneous (and elicited) production of questions in 3 typically developing French children (1;8-2;10) and 11 French children with SLI (3;10-9;1). French has three types of constituent questions (Wh-in-situ, fronted Wh without inversion, fronted Wh with inversion) graded in syntactic complexity, allowing detailed investigation of syntactic competence. The results show that both groups of children greatly prefer Wh-in-situ over fronted Wh and avoid inversion. Infinitives are extremely rare in all questions, whereas null subjects are rare in fronted Wh-questions but occur in in-situ questions in typically developing children. SLI children do not produce infinitives in Wh-questions, but allow null subjects in all question types. The elicitation experiment confirmed these trends, though the SLI children had significantly more difficulties with movement than the normal children. A tentative account uses the truncation approach and the assumption that young children avoid movement by deriving in-situ questions with a Q-element in the head position of an Interrogative Phrase entering into an Agree relation with the element left in-situ. SLI children might extend this economic analysis to all Wh-questions.
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title	Speculations About Early Syntax: The Production of Wh-questions by Normally Developing French Children and French Children with SLI
title_short	Speculations About Early Syntax: The Production of Wh-questions by Normally Developing French Children and French Children with SLI
title_full	Speculations About Early Syntax: The Production of Wh-questions by Normally Developing French Children and French Children with SLI
title_fullStr	Speculations About Early Syntax: The Production of Wh-questions by Normally Developing French Children and French Children with SLI
title_full_unstemmed	Speculations About Early Syntax: The Production of Wh-questions by Normally Developing French Children and French Children with SLI
title_sort	speculations about early syntax: the production of wh-questions by normally developing french children and french children with sli
publisher	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
publishDate	2006
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Speculations About Early Syntax: The Production of Wh-questions by Normally Developing French Children and French Children with SLI

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