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Speculations About Early Syntax: The Production of Wh-questions by Normally Developing French Children and French Children with SLI

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2006
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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Wh-question formation in Lokạạ [PDF]

, 2023
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 ...
Amaechi, Mary
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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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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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Correlations between island (in)sensitivity and base positions of (non-)standard wh-in-situ [PDF]

, 2021
It has been well-accepted in the literature that the island (in)sensitivity of wh-in-situ falls under the so-called Noun versus Adverb Generalization (NAG), which states that an in-situ wh-phrase is island-free iff it is (or contains) a wh-nominal (Tsai ...
Park, Seulkee, Kim, Okgi, Seulkee Park, Okgi Kim   +3 more
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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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Scope assignment: From wh- to QR

Glossa, 2017
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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Brazilian Portuguese in-situ wh-interrogatives between rhetoric and change

Glossa, 2019
Previous studies of the historical development of partial interrogatives have postulated a change from contexts in which the proposition of the interrogative has been explicitly mentioned in the previous discourse, to contexts in which the proposition is
Malte Rosemeyer
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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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