Intervention Effects in Early Grammar: Evidence from Sluicing
Intervention Effects in Early Grammar: Evidence from Sluicing
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早期语法的干预效果:来自冲洗的证据
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2018
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L. Winans
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Victoria Mateu;N. Hyams;L. Winans
Ellipsis (meaning without sound) poses an extreme ‘poverty of the stimulus’ (POS) problem for language acquisition. To arrive at the correct interpretation, children must recognize that part of a sentence is missing, and they must assign a meaning to the elided material by associating the ellipsis site to its antecedent. It is not immediately obvious how and when they learn to do this. In this study we investigate children’s acquisition of one type of ellipsis – sluicing. One of the central goals is to determine whether children show a subject-object asymmetry with respect to sluicing, as they do with other types of (overt) A’-movement, arguably an effect of intervention. Although ellipsis has not been widely studied in acquisition overall, some forms of ellipsis have received more attention than others. The development of VP ellipsis (VPE) has been looked at in a number of languages, most prominently English (Thornton & Wexler, 1999; Matsuo & Duffield, 2001; Foley et al., 2003; Thornton, 2010), but also Japanese (Matsuo, 2007), European Portuguese (Santos, 2009), and Mandarin (Fangfang et al., 1996). Argument ellipsis (AE) has also been studied in several “object drop” languages, including Mandarin (Su, 2013; Zhou, 2014), Cantonese (Cheung, 2008), Japanese (Matsuo, 2007), and European Portuguese (Santos, 2009). There has been far less investigation of the acquisition of sluicing (Lindenbergh et al., 2013; Sugisaki, 2016; Wood, 2009), which involves the ellipsis of TP in a wh-question that leaves a “remnant” wh-phrase overt, as in (1).