The Syntax-PF Interface in Children’s Negative Sentences
| Autor: | Kelly Rombough, Rosalind Thornton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Language Acquisition. 22:132-157 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7817 1048-9223 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10489223.2014.943901 |
| Popis: | To test between two recent accounts of the early stages in the acquisition of negation, we conducted an elicited production study with 25 children, between 2;05 and 3;04 (mean 2;11). The experimental study produced a robust set of negative sentences, with considerable individual variation. Although 13 of the child participants mainly produced adultlike negative sentences with doesn’t, 12 children produced nontarget forms. The nonadult productions included medial negation structures, both with bare verbs (It not fit) and with inflected main verbs (It not fits, It don’t fits), as well as negative sentences with “high” inflection (It’s not fit) and doubling (It’s not fits). Although some of the findings are consistent with the account advanced by Harris & Wexler (1996), their prediction that negative sentences with do-support (It don’t/doesn’t fit) co-occur with medial negation and a bare verb (It not fit) was not borne out. The findings are amenable to the account advanced by Thornton & Tesan (2013), who co... |
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