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A contrastive perspective on French and Italian wh-in-situ. A discourse-pragmatic approach [PDF]

, 2022
This paper offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of French and Italian wh-in situ questions based on spontaneous spoken data. A pragmatic analysis relying on two parameters, propositional activation and pragmatic functions, reveals that the ...
Garassino, Davide
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Syntactic transfer in a Cantonese-English bilingual child [PDF]

, 2000
Research on early bilingual development has suggested that syntactic transfer in bilingual acquisition is dependent on patterns of dominance and properties of the dual input the child is exposed to.
Matthews, SJ, Yip, V
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The comprehension and production of Wh- questions among Malay children with developmental language disorders: Climbing the syntactic tree

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
This study is an investigation of both comprehension and production of Wh- questions in Malay-speaking children with a developmental language disorder (DLD).
Norsofiah Abu Bakar, Giuditta Smith, Rogayah A. Razak, Maria Garraffa   +3 more
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French wh-in-situ Questions and Syntactic Optionality: Evidence from Three Data Types

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2006
The aim of this paper is to corroborate the assumption of syntactic optionality for French wh-questions. In terms of a broader basis of evidence three different data types are utilized: Firstly, a qualitative interview approach suggests that wh-in-situ ...
Adli Aria
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Q-particles and the nature of Covert movement: Evidence from Buli

Glossa, 2019
There are a number of intriguing issues surrounding wh-questions that have drawn considerable attention in the literature. Among the most commonly observed is the fact that in certain languages, wh-phrases move overtly from their base-generated positions
Abdul-Razak Sulemana
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Wh-questions in Singapore English tell us what about questions with declarative syntax?

Glossa, 2017
Bobaljik & Wurmband (2015) have recently developed a hypothesis that no language truly mixes wh-movement and wh-in-situ structures in its syntax, with seemingly optional wh-in-situ in a wh-movement language being analyzed as a question with ...
Jian Gang Ngui, Yosuke Sato
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Book reviews [PDF]

, 2003
Eugen Helimski-Anna Wildmer (eds): Wŭśa wŭśa - Sei gegrüβt! Beiträge zur Finnugoristik zu Ehren von Gert Sauer dargebracht zu seinem siebzigsten Gebursttag.
Bartos, Huba, Keresztes, László
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From Wh-Movement to Wh-In-Situ Acquisition of I-To-C Movement in English Interrogative Constructions by Kurdish Learners

گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆ, 2020
In this study, the effect of Kurdish (Behdini variety) as an L1 on L2 learners' acquisition of English Wh-movement in interrogation will be investigated through comparatively taking into account the most current syntactically-based generative models of ...
Shivan Toma
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Wh-questions in Japanese: Challenges for Vietnamese L2 learners

Acta Linguistica Asiatica
The study explored how Vietnamese learners of Japanese handle structural differences in wh-questions. Despite both being wh-in-situ languages, the divergent word order poses challenges for Vietnamese learners.
Trang Phan, Giang Vu
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Quoi-sluices in French

Glossa, 2022
Sluicing has traditionally been analyzed as an operation involving wh-movement and deletion (Merchant 2001). French is a language that has both fronted and wh-in situ strategies; on the surface, however, it seems that French sluices do not involve (overt)
Megan Gotowski
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