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Speculations About Early Syntax: The Production of Wh-questions by Normally Developing French Children and French Children with SLI [PDF]
This paper examines the spontaneous (and elicited) production of questions in 3 typically developing French children (1;8-2;10) and 11 French children with SLI (3;10-9;1).
Cornelia Hamann
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Scope assignment: From wh- to QR [PDF]
This paper develops a theory of scope assignment to wh-phrases as resulting of a process of selective spell-out of copies created from Internal Merge. We show that so-called LF-movement is not a viable option in the current theory of grammar.
George Tsoulas, Norman Yeo
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Prosody, clause typing, and wh-in-situ: Evidence from Mandarin
This paper examines the use of prosody for marking upcoming linguistic material in speech production and for anticipating them in speech perception. More specifically, it examines whether in the absence of any overt morphosyntactic cues in the beginning ...
Jenny Doetjes +3 more
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The Distribution of Wh-word in Single Wh-Questions in Persian [PDF]
By investigating the distribution of wh-word insingle Wh-questions in Persian through a qualitative method in terms of the theory of Derivational Approach (Epstein et al., 1998) and Feature-Free Syntax (Boeckx, 2015) we intend to explain why wh-word is ...
Ahmadreza Sharifipur shirazi +1 more
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Wh-question formation in Lokạạ
This paper discusses wh-questions in the Benue-Congo language, Lokạạ. The different strategies of wh-question formation are examined. It is observed that in addition to the ex-situ and in-situ strategies, the language allows partial wh-movement under ...
Mary Amaechi
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On wh-movement in Spanish Echo Questions
This paper examines Spanish echo questions, an understudied phenomenon even in extensively described languages such as English. In particular, it focuses on a very particular type of echo questions, such as those made in response to a previous yes/no ...
Ekaterina Chernova
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Wh-questions in French and English [PDF]
As opposed to English, French wh-questions can take a wide variety of forms. I identify four basic patterns: (a) wh- in situ: Vous êtes allés où?; (b) wh- raised, verb in situ: Où vous êtes allés?; (c) est-ce que insertion: Où est-ce que vous êtes allés?;
P. Boucher
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The periphery of vP in the theory of wh-in situ
This article outlines an implementation of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q that considers the role played by the periphery of vP, hitherto unexplored in this framework. Empirically, I offer a new example, in a new language family, of a known manifestation of
Caterina Bonan
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Vietnamese and the NP/DP parameter [PDF]
This paper investigates the place of Vietnamese in the NP/DP typology as formulated by Bošković (2005, 2008, 2009, 2010). We show that Bošković’s NP/DP parameter breaks down into at least three separate parameters.
Lander, Eric, Phan Nguyen, Trang
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Island-sensitivity of two different interpretations of why in Chinese
It has been assumed that the wh-element weishenme “why” in Chinese has two distinct interpretations: a reason reading, which typically yields yinwei “because”-answers, and a purpose reading, which typically triggers weile “in order to”-answers.
Nayoun Kim, Ziying Li, Jiayi Lu
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