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The comprehension and production of Wh- questions among Malay children with developmental language disorders: Climbing the syntactic tree

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +3 more
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Syntactic transfer in a Cantonese-English bilingual child [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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French wh-in-situ Questions and Syntactic Optionality: Evidence from Three Data Types

open access: yesZeitschrift 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
doaj   +1 more source

Q-particles and the nature of Covert movement: Evidence from Buli

open access: yesGlossa, 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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Comprehension of wh-questions in a case of mixed dementia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We investigated processing of wh-questions and declarative sentences with differing syntactic complexity in a case of mixed dementia (FA). FA was impaired in her ability to understand syntactically complex declarative sentences and syntactically complex
Hanna, D.C.   +4 more
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Wh-questions in Singapore English tell us what about questions with declarative syntax?

open access: yesGlossa, 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Book reviews [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Wh-questions in Japanese: Challenges for Vietnamese L2 learners

open access: yesActa 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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From Wh-Movement to Wh-In-Situ Acquisition of I-To-C Movement in English Interrogative Constructions by Kurdish Learners

open access: yesگۆڤارا 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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Brazilian Portuguese in-situ wh-interrogatives between rhetoric and change

open access: yesGlossa, 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
doaj   +2 more sources

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