Referentiality and Wh-Movement in Child English: Juvenile D-Linkuency  

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Thornton, Rosalind

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 4 no. 1&2 (1995), page 139-172.
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This article compares children's productions of wh-questions with referential Which-N wh-phrases with nonreferential wh-phrases such as who or what. Children's questionswith referential wh-phrases present a number of optional "nonadult" structures, which I argue fall into two classes, as predicted by Cinque (1990) and Rizzi (1990). One class involves movement of the wh-phrase through the Spec CP position. The other class of structures involve long movement, in which the wh-phrase bypasses Spec CP. These grammatical options are motivated by the presence or absence of a medial-wh in available for childern's long-distance questions. I prpose that the same options are available for children's referential matrix questions. By hypothesis, this necessitates movement of the refential wh-phrase to a position higher than CP, which I take to be Referential Phrase (RefP) (Stowell and Beghelli (1994)). I argue that these unusual questions can be observed in children's grammars because they make overt certain distinction that remain covert in adult grammar. In particular, children's movement of referential wh-phrases to Spec RefP is "visible" whereas in the adult grammar, the movement takes place at LF.

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