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Letras De Hoje, Sep 22, 2006
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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2019
This study focuses on the acquisition of verbal mood in complement clauses by two groups of herit... more This study focuses on the acquisition of verbal mood in complement clauses by two groups of heritage speakers of European Portuguese (EP) (7-16 years) with similar sociolinguistic profiles and two different dominant languages, German and French. The production of finite complement clauses was elicited through a sentence completion task. By comparing two bilingual groups with different dominant languages (a Romance language with a subjunctive mood encoding the same semantic values as EP and a Germanic language with no similar linguistic category), we discuss the relative weight of cross-linguistic influence and of amount of exposure in bilingual acquisition. The results show protracted development of both bilingual groups concerning the subjunctive, with no negative effect observed in the bilingual speakers who are dominant in German. We conclude that cross-linguistic influence cannot explain this performance and suggest that amount of input plays a role.
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CEPLEXicon (version 1.1) is a child lexicon resulting from the automatic tagging of two child cor... more CEPLEXicon (version 1.1) is a child lexicon resulting from the automatic tagging of two child corpora: the corpus Santos (Santos, 2006; Santos et al. 2014) and the corpus Child – Adult Interaction (Freitas et al. 2012), which integrates information from the corpus Freitas (Freitas, 1997). This lexicon represents spontaneous speech produced by seven children (1;02.00 to 3;11.12) during approximately 86h of child-adult interaction. The lexicon contains information pertaining to lemmas and syntactic categories as well as absolute number of occurrences and frequencies in three age intervals: < 2 years; ≥ 2 years and < 3 years; ≥ 3 years.
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2003
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Para a História do Português Brasileiro – Volume III: Sintaxe Comparativa entre o Português Brasileiro e Língua Crioulas de Base Lexical Portuguesa, 2013
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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2014
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Probus, 2015
In this paper, we present extended argumentation against a raising analysis for every type of rel... more In this paper, we present extended argumentation against a raising analysis for every type of relative clauses. Specifically, we argue that purpose relative clauses involve raising of a null operator to Spec,CP, contrary toAfter showing that all purpose relatives in European Portuguese are CPs, we present several arguments in favor of a null operator analysis of this type of structure. First, we show that parasitic gap effects support the existence of a variable in object purpose relatives and in VP adjunct purpose clauses with an object gap. We then show that Principle A effects in object purpose relatives allow to distinguish this type of relatives from
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Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2016
This study compares the performance of Portuguese-German heritage children and adult L2 speakers ... more This study compares the performance of Portuguese-German heritage children and adult L2 speakers of European Portuguese whose L1 is German with respect to two aspects of grammar, adverb placement and VP-ellipsis, which depend on a core syntactic property of the language, verb movement. The results show that both groups have acquired V-to-I and adverb placement, showing no influence of a V2 grammar. Performance in the VP-ellipsis task is more complex: heritage children produce VP-ellipsis at the level of controls, as opposed to L2 speakers; however, both L2 and heritage speakers show that cross-linguistic influence may produce a preference for pronoun substitution over VP-ellipsis in a task asking for redundancy resolution. Nevertheless, given that overall results show that heritage children perform at the level of L1 children, we take our results to support approaches to heritage bilingualism which suggest the development of an intact grammar in childhood.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
This study presents the validation analysis of the European Portuguese version of the MacArthur-B... more This study presents the validation analysis of the European Portuguese version of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory III (CDI-III-PT). The CDI-III-PT is a parental report measure allowing researchers to assess expressive vocabulary and the syntactic abilities of children aged 2;6–4;0. In this study, we present a version comprising a lexical subscale which follows the Swedish adaptation and an original syntactic subscale allowing us to include language-specific structures. The reports of 739 children were collected; in addition, a standardized measure of language was also administered to a sub-sample of these children and the reports of preschool teachers were collected for another sub-sample. The results indicate a high internal consistency of the lexical and syntactic subscales. As for sociodemographic variables often found to be predictors of language development, as measured by this type of instrument, the results indicate that age and maternal education are ...
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Journal of child language, Jan 30, 2016
The present study analyzes the effect of age and amount of input in the acquisition of European P... more The present study analyzes the effect of age and amount of input in the acquisition of European Portuguese as a heritage language. An elicited production task centred on mood choice in complement clauses was applied to a group of fifty bilingual children (six- to sixteen-year-olds) who are acquiring Portuguese as a minority language in a German dominant environment. The results show a significant effect of the age at testing and the amount of input in the acquisition of the subjunctive. In general, acquisition is delayed with respect to monolinguals, even though higher convergence with the monolingual grammar is observed after twelve years of age. Results also reveal that children with more exposure to the heritage language at home show faster acquisition than children from mixed households: the eight- to nine-year-old age boundary seems relevant for those speakers with more exposure, and the twelve- to thirteen-year-old age boundary for those with less exposure.
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In this paper, * we discuss children’s initial preferences concerning the interpretation of contr... more In this paper, * we discuss children’s initial preferences concerning the interpretation of control verbs. It is generally assumed that once the child is able to interpret obligatory control, subject control with want-type verbs is not problematic. In contrast, the interpretation of obligatory control with ditransitive verbs raises different issues. In general, it is assumed that subject control with promise-type verbs is difficult for preschool children, a fact resulting from a preference for a ‘closer’ controller and favouring object control readings with ditransitive verbs. As we will see, this preference for a closer controller can be derived from either the analysis of control as movement (Hornstein, 1999) or from alternative accounts, such as an analysis of subject control in ditransitives as an effect of smuggling (Belletti & Rizzi, 2013). The present paper aims at defying this view, by testing how children interpret the subject of an infinitive under a novel ditransitive ver...
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CEPLEXicon (version 1.1) is a child lexicon resulting from the automatic tagging of two child cor... more CEPLEXicon (version 1.1) is a child lexicon resulting from the automatic tagging of two child corpora: the corpus Santos (Santos, 2006; Santos et al. 2014) and the corpus Child ― Adult Interaction (Freitas et al. 2012), which integrates information from the corpus Freitas (Freitas, 1997). This lexicon includes spontaneous speech produced by seven children (1;02.00 to 3;11.12) during approximately 86h of child-adult interaction. The automatic tagging comprised the lemmatization and morphosyntactic classification of the speech produced by the seven children included in the two child corpora; the lexicon contains information pertaining to lemmas and syntactic categories as well as absolute number of occurrences and frequencies in three age intervals: < 2 years; ≥ 2 years and < 3 years; ≥ 3 years. The information included in this lexicon and the format in which it is presented enables research in different areas and allows researchers to obtain measures of lexical growth. CEPLEXic...
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In this paper we investigate the comprehension of relative clauses and control structures in chil... more In this paper we investigate the comprehension of relative clauses and control structures in children diagnosed with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Several studies have explored a syntactic deficit in SLI children, and particularly a deficit in comprehension and production of object relative clauses (Friedmann & Novogrodsky, 2004; Novogrodsky & Friedmann, 2006; a.o.), a case in which an intervention effect is created as a result of A-bar moving an object DP which crosses a subject. However, less is known about the performance of SLI children in the comprehension of control structures which may also correspond to a configuration justifying an intervention effect, if control is analysed as Amovement (see Hornstein, 1999). This is the case of subject control with promisetype verbs. In addition, some recent studies suggested similarities between SLI and ASD children in the comprehension and production of relative clauses, ...
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