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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |