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| Autor/inn/en | Iraola Azpiroz, Maialen; Santesteban, Mikel; Sorace, Antonella; Ezeizabarrena, Maria-José |
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| Titel | Pronoun Preferences of Children in a Language without Typical Third-Person Pronouns |
| Quelle | In: First Language, 37 (2017) 2, S.168-185 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0142-7237 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0142723716679799 |
| Schlagwörter | Preferences; Form Classes (Languages); Child Language; Language Acquisition; Native Language; Romance Languages; Grammar; Task Analysis; Age Differences; Ambiguity (Semantics); Statistical Analysis; Regression (Statistics); Foreign Countries; Spain |
| Abstract | This study presents comprehension data from 6-7-and 8-10-year-old children as well as adults on the acceptability of null vs overt anaphoric forms (the demonstrative "hura" "that" and the quasipronoun bera "(s)he, him-/herself") in Basque, a language without true third-person pronouns. In an acceptability judgement task, a developmental change occurred in the preference for "hura" (Experiment 1): 6-7-year-olds showed a preference for the null pronoun in both topic-shift and topic-continuity contexts, while 8-10-year-olds, like adults, preferred "hura in topic-shift contexts and null pronouns in topic-continuity contexts. However, no developmental shift was observed in the preference for "bera" (Experiment 2): unlike adults, neither 6-7 nor 8-10-year-old children selected "bera" over null pronouns in topic-shift contexts. They instead showed a general preference for null pronouns, an indication of tolerance for ambiguity--a pattern which differs from prior studies in other null-subject languages, where ambiguous pronouns declined with age. The results reveal a different developmental pattern for "hura" and "bera", which may be explained by the more rigid (syntactic) constraints operating on "hura" in comparison to "bera" in antecedent choice. (As Provided). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2020/1/01 |
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