Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts
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Resumo: | The present paper presents an experiment testing Portuguese-speaking children’s comprehension of different types of subject and object clefts – é que clefts, standard clefts and pseudoclefts. We consider previous studies that explain asymmetric difficulties in the comprehension of structures with object A-bar extraction as an effect of featural intervention, and we show that only é que clefts and standard clefts (as opposed to pseudoclefts) involve a configuration justifying intervention along these lines. Featural intervention accounts therefore predict that comprehension asymmetries between subject and object clefts are only found in é que clefts and in standard clefts, but not in pseudoclefts. Our study supports the featural intervention account. In addition, it also supports the claim that different syntactic structures underlie the different types of clefts under analysis: pseudoclefts are distinguished from other clefts for not involving extraction of the clefted constituent in an intervention configuration. |
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Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of cleftsCleftsSubject-object asymmetriesEuropean PortugueseAcquisitionFeatural interventionThe present paper presents an experiment testing Portuguese-speaking children’s comprehension of different types of subject and object clefts – é que clefts, standard clefts and pseudoclefts. We consider previous studies that explain asymmetric difficulties in the comprehension of structures with object A-bar extraction as an effect of featural intervention, and we show that only é que clefts and standard clefts (as opposed to pseudoclefts) involve a configuration justifying intervention along these lines. Featural intervention accounts therefore predict that comprehension asymmetries between subject and object clefts are only found in é que clefts and in standard clefts, but not in pseudoclefts. Our study supports the featural intervention account. In addition, it also supports the claim that different syntactic structures underlie the different types of clefts under analysis: pseudoclefts are distinguished from other clefts for not involving extraction of the clefted constituent in an intervention configuration.Ubiquity PressRepositório da Universidade de LisboaLobo, MariaSantos, Ana LúciaSoares-Jesel, CarlaVaz, Stéphanie2019-07-11T08:47:51Z20192019-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/39042engLobo, Maria, Ana Lúcia Santos, Carla Soares-Jesel and Stéphanie Vaz. 2019. Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 4(1): 74. 1–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.6452397-1835https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.645info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:37:05Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/39042Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:52:43.529592Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts |
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Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts |
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Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts Lobo, Maria Clefts Subject-object asymmetries European Portuguese Acquisition Featural intervention |
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Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts |
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Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts |
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Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts |
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Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts |
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Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts |
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Lobo, Maria |
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Lobo, Maria Santos, Ana Lúcia Soares-Jesel, Carla Vaz, Stéphanie |
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Santos, Ana Lúcia Soares-Jesel, Carla Vaz, Stéphanie |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Lobo, Maria Santos, Ana Lúcia Soares-Jesel, Carla Vaz, Stéphanie |
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Clefts Subject-object asymmetries European Portuguese Acquisition Featural intervention |
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Clefts Subject-object asymmetries European Portuguese Acquisition Featural intervention |
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The present paper presents an experiment testing Portuguese-speaking children’s comprehension of different types of subject and object clefts – é que clefts, standard clefts and pseudoclefts. We consider previous studies that explain asymmetric difficulties in the comprehension of structures with object A-bar extraction as an effect of featural intervention, and we show that only é que clefts and standard clefts (as opposed to pseudoclefts) involve a configuration justifying intervention along these lines. Featural intervention accounts therefore predict that comprehension asymmetries between subject and object clefts are only found in é que clefts and in standard clefts, but not in pseudoclefts. Our study supports the featural intervention account. In addition, it also supports the claim that different syntactic structures underlie the different types of clefts under analysis: pseudoclefts are distinguished from other clefts for not involving extraction of the clefted constituent in an intervention configuration. |
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2019 |
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2019-07-11T08:47:51Z 2019 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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Lobo, Maria, Ana Lúcia Santos, Carla Soares-Jesel and Stéphanie Vaz. 2019. Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 4(1): 74. 1–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.645 2397-1835 https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.645 |
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