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Effects of language dominance and time of formal exposure to the language on th...
Tomaz, Margarida; Lobo, Maria; Madeira, Ana; Soares-Jesel, Carla; Vaz, StéphanieThis study investigates the effects of two external linguistic variables – language dominance and time of formal exposure – on the production and placement of clitic pronouns of Portuguese-French bilingual children. Using two elicited production tasks and a parental sociolinguistic questionnaire, we show that language dominance plays a role in rates of omission and rates of clitic production. On the other hand,...
Omission and placement of clitics by Portuguese-French bilingual children
Tomaz, Margarida; Lobo, Maria; Madeira, Ana; Soares-Jesel, Carla; Vaz, StéphanieThis study investigates clitic omission and clitic placement in Portuguese-French bilingual children. Using two elicited production tasks, we show that the global pattern of development is very similar to the one found in monolingual acquisition: bilingual children are sensitive to the type of clitic (more omission in accusative contexts than in reflexive contexts), syntactic context (higher rates of pronoun pr...
Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts
Lobo, Maria; Santos, Ana Lúcia; Soares-Jesel, Carla; Vaz, StéphanieThe 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 cleft...
Omissão e colocação de clíticos por crianças bilingues Português-Francês
Tomaz, Margarida; Lobo, Maria; Madeira, Ana; Soares-Jesel, Carla; Vaz, StéphanieThis study investigates clitic omission and clitic placement in Portuguese-French bilingual children. Using two elicited production tasks, we show that the global pattern of development is very similar to the one found in monolingual acquisition: bilingual children are sensitive to the type of clitic (more omission in accusative contexts than in reflexive contexts), syntactic context (higher rates of pronoun pr...
Compreensão de estruturas clivadas na aquisição do português europeu
Lobo, Maria; Santos, Ana Lúcia; Soares-Jesel, Carla; Vaz, StéphanieThis paper investigates the comprehension of three types of subject and object clefts by European Portuguese 4 and 5 year-olds and a control group of adults. We investigated whether there were differences between the three types of clefts (é que clefts, standard clefts and pseudoclefts) and whether there were subject-object asymmetries. The results show that the comprehension of subject clefts is easier than ob...
Spontaneous and Elicited Production of European Portuguese Clefts
Santos, Ana Lúcia; Lobo, Maria; Soares-Jesel, CarlaClefts have not received much attention in the acquisition literature, even though they raise relevant questions: most clefts imply the projection of CP (in some cases, an embedded CP); in most cases they imply A’-movement; and the production of a cleft is subject to semantic-pragmatic constraints to the extent that clefted material is generally interpreted as focused. In particular, European Portuguese clefts ...