Effects of focus and definiteness on children's word order: evidence from German five-year-olds' reproductions of double object constructions

Two experiments tested how faithfully German children aged 4 ;5  to 5 ;6  reproduce ditransitive sentences that are unmarked or marked with respect to word order and focus (Exp1) or definiteness (Exp2). Adopting an optimality theory (OT) approach, it is assumed that in the German adult grammar word...

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Autores principales: HÖHLE, BARBARA, HÖRNIG, ROBIN, WESKOTT, THOMAS, KNAUF, SELENE, KRÜGER, AGNES
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4053924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23803281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000913000196

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4053924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23803281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000913000196

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