Minimal Answers

Minimal Answers
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9789027253095
ISBN-13 : 9027253099
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Book Synopsis Minimal Answers by : Ana Lúcia Santos

Download or read book Minimal Answers written by Ana Lúcia Santos and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the acquisition of the syntax-discourse interface. It provides evidence that children acquiring European Portuguese have a very early ability to spontaneously produce VP ellipsis as answers to yes-no questions. It is also argued that the distribution of VP ellipsis in European Portuguese (including its co-existence with Null Complement Anaphora) supports the hypothesis that the identification condition on ellipsis is derivable from some innate knowledge of the syntax-discourse interface. Answers to yes-no questions also provide evidence concerning children's interpretation of questions containing a cleft or the operator só 'only'. The analysis of spontaneous production is complemented by a comprehension experiment, showing that children have two problems in the interpretation of these questions: (i) they do not understand that the cleft and só introduce a presupposition and (ii) they start with a default focus assignment strategy and may not access other focus interpretations.


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