The status of 'canonical SVO sentences' in French: a developmental study of the on-line processing of  

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Kail, Michele ; Charvilalt, Agnes

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 18 no. 3 (Oct. 1991), page 591-608.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This on-line study investigates the processing of word order by 30 French children (6; 6, 8; 6, 10; 6) and 10 adults. Its main objective is to show that the privileged status granted to 'canonical SVO sentences' is inadequate to account for the on-line processing of pronominal utterances in spoken French. Using a word monitoring task, we showed that word order (NVN vs NNV): (1) is a significant factor in sentences containing no clitic pronoun; (2) stops being significant when sentences contain either one or two clitic pronouns. These results suggest that processing complexity depends upon co-reference (' linear', 'crossed' or 'embedding') assignment constraints rather than upon word order per se. We conclude that, in French, word-order processing always interacts with acceptability considerations provided by cliticization.

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