| Title: | Children do not substitute object relatives with subject relatives in every Romance language: the case of Spanish |
| Author: | Maria José Ezeizabarrena |
| Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LVII (2), p. 161-181 |
| p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
| Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | Restrictive relative clauses collected using the Spanish version of the elicitation test developed in a collaborative project (Friedmann 2010, Friedmann et al. in preparation) show that 5 year-old children (ch5) produce almost adult-like rates of target SR in Spanish, whereas target ORs are close to chance level at the same age and still 20% lower than adults’ 22 months later (ch7). These results confirm widely reported cross-linguistic research showing that SRs are easier than ORs (Labelle 1988, among many others). However, the high error variability observed in the target-deviant RCs, as well as the absence of any evident morphosyntactic pattern as an alternative to the production of ORs (such as the use of passives or resumptives) makes it difficult to maintain the existence of some clear OR-by-SR substitution strategy in Spanish at this age. |
| Key words: | restrictive relative clause, subject-object asymmetry, Spanish, clitic, resumptive |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 2
| 1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 55, 2012). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2012 | LR, LXII (3), 271-408 | 2013 | pdf html |
| 2 | Anca Sevcenco, Larisa Avram | Romanian-speaking children’s comprehension of relatives | RRL, LVII (2), 219-239 | 2012 | pdf html |
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