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Wh-questions in Japanese: Challenges for Vietnamese L2 learners
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
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
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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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: scrambling, reconstruction, and wh-movement [PDF]
In this article, I discuss some important properties of wh-questions and wh-scrambling in Japanese. The questions I will address are (i) which instances of (wh-) scrambling involve reconstruction and (ii) how the undoing effects of scrambling can be ...
Sabel, Joachim
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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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Electrospun Wood‐Derived Biopolymers as Electrodes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies
Electrospinning transforms wood‐derived cellulose and lignin into architecturally defined, binder‐free carbon electrodes with tuneable porosity and functionality. This review shows how fibre design enables decoupled charge and mass transport, enhancing performance across battery systems, while identifying key challenges in spinnability, scalability ...
Michael W. Thielke +3 more
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Wh- In Situ Production in Child French* [PDF]
This article addresses claims that French children produce more wh-in situ questions than adults, and that this is motivated by a desire for more “economical” structure in regard to wh-question formation. Experimental results of an elicitation study with
Gotowski, Megan
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Echo questions in Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese (BP) can have the wh-element in-situ with two types of sentence intonation: (a) the rising intonation of a yes/no question, in which case it is interpreted as an echo question, and (b) the falling intonation, similar to that of a ...
Mary A. Kato
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Apparent wh-in-situ in Bellunese: Microparametric variation in the locus of subject clitic inversion
The paper investigates wh-in-situ in Lamonat and Sovramontino, two understudied varieties of the Bellunese super-dialect area (Munaro 1998; 1999; Munaro et al. 2001; Poletto & Pollock 2004; 2009; 2015), from a new perspective, whereby patterns of non-
Simone De Cia
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