RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Degree clauses in child Spanish: effects of locality on the interpretation of gaps and overt pronouns
T2 Construcciones de grado en el español infantil: efectos de localidad en la interpretación de huecos y pronombres explícitos
A1 Parodi, Teresa
A1 Vilar Beltrán, Elina
K1 Degree clauses
K1 Spanish
K1 Null operator structure
K1 Finiteness
K1 Locality
K1 Comprehension
K1 Construcciones de grado
K1 Español
K1 Estructura de operador nulo
K1 Finitud
K1 Localidad
K1 Comprensión
K1 Humanidades
K1 Humanities
K1 Lingüística
K1 Linguistics
AB This pilot study addresses the interpretation of degree clauses, one type of Null Operator Structure (NOS), by Spanish-speaking children (age 3-6) and adult speakers. Specifically, it focuses on locality and the role of finiteness and overt morphology (i.e. gaps vs resumptive pronouns) in establishing coreference between a matrix subject and the subject or object of an embedded clause. The results show that overt object pronouns do not facilitate the coreference between the matrix subject and an embedded object, neither for the children nor for the adults; the preferred binding is that between the matrix subject and the embedded PRO. This tendency to close the derivation at the smallest possible configuration is favoured both by syntax and by processing factors.
SN 1697-0780
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/34345
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/34345
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 20-abr-2024