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Children's Wh-questions across Languages: Some Preliminary Results

Domaine:

natural language processing

Type de record:

paper
Créateur:
YatDalGonHein, Johannes
Éditeur:
GonKpo
Éditeur:
Cas
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In this study, we investigated how children produce wh-questions in five languages: German, Hungarian, Malayalam, Mandarin, and Yoruba. These languages represent diverse properties that may affect the acquisition of wh-questions: wh-in-situ (Malayalam and Mandarin); verb-final (German and Malayalam); case-marking on at least some wh-phrases (German, Hungarian, and Malayalam), word-order flexibility (German and Malayalam). We found that (i) subject questions are easier for children than object questions--this was true also for languages without overt wh-movement; (ii) the question word "what" made questions easier, (iii) complex "which N" phrases are more difficult for children than simpler "who" and "what" questions to produce, and this was true across languages, and (iv) pronominal subjects make object questions easier than full NPs. Work is ongoing to extend our study to wider range of languages.

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Languages

Yoruba

Tags

wh-questionsless investigated languageslanguage acquisitioncross-linguistic investigationsyntax

Licenses

Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode© 2022 Kazuko Yatsushiro, Chiara Dal Farra, Aurore Gonzalez, Johannes Hein, Silvia Silleresi, Alicia Avellana, Aijun Huang, Johnson F. Ilori, Gayathri G. Krishnan, Lilla Pintér, Maria Teresa Guasti, and Uli Sauerland.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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