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Minimal Answers: Ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders)

Ana Lúcia Santos

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Minimal Answers: Ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders). To get started finding Minimal Answers: Ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Minimal Answers: Ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders). To get started finding Minimal Answers: Ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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