Minimal answers : ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese
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書誌事項
Minimal answers : ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese
（Language acquisition & language disorders / editors, Harald Clahsen, William Rutherford, v. 48）
J. Benjamins, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-293) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the acquisition of the syntax-discourse interface. It provides evidence that children acquiring European Portuguese have a very early ability to spontaneously produce VP ellipsis as answers to yes-no questions. It is also argued that the distribution of VP ellipsis in European Portuguese (including its co-existence with Null Complement Anaphora) supports the hypothesis that the identification condition on ellipsis is derivable from some innate knowledge of the syntax-discourse interface. Answers to yes-no questions also provide evidence concerning children's interpretation of questions containing a cleft or the operator so 'only'. The analysis of spontaneous production is complemented by a comprehension experiment, showing that children have two problems in the interpretation of these questions: (i) they do not understand that the cleft and so introduce a presupposition and (ii) they start with a default focus assignment strategy and may not access other focus interpretations.
目次
- 1. List of tables
- 2. List of figures
- 3. Preface
- 4. Abbreviations used in glosses
- 5. Chapter 1. Introduction
- 6. Chapter 2. VPE and the structural and anaphoric properties of minimal answers in EP adult grammar
- 7. Chapter 3. Learnability issues in VPE and focus
- 8. Chapter 4. How early can VPE be found?
- 9. Chapter 5. Answers as a window into the interpretation of questions
- 10. Chapter 6. Conclusions
- 11. References
- 12. Subject index
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