Language Acquisition ( IF 1.600 ) Pub Date : 2018-10-25 , DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2018.1508465 Adriana Belletti 1 , Claudia Manetti 2
ABSTRACT
Through two elicited production experiments we investigated how preschool Italian-speaking children access the left periphery of the clause with respect to topics in Clitic Left Dislocation (ClLD) structures. Since the discourse conditions of the experiments are felicitous for the production of passives as well, we also investigated children’s production of different types of passives, and how it compares to adults’. A rich and variegated array of results indicate young children’s early access to the left peripheral topic positions—also in a nonadult manner through use of a-marked topics—and preference for ClLD over passive in contrast to adults; children’s early access to passive in the causative voice also emerged as well as use of ClLD with null generic subject as an alternative to the (copular/venire) passive. Intervention locality/relativized minimality plays a crucial role in interpreting the articulated results within the system developed in Friedmann, Belletti & Rizzi (2009) and much subsequent work.
中文翻译:
意大利语儿童和成人的话题和被动语态
摘要
通过两个引人注目的生产实验,我们研究了学龄前讲意大利语的儿童如何与Clitic Left Dislocation(ClLD)结构中的主题相关的条款的左边缘。由于实验的话语条件也适用于制造被动物,因此我们还研究了儿童生产的各种类型的被动物,以及与成人相比的情况。丰富和多样化的结果表明阵列幼儿通过利用提前获得左侧边缘学科位置,也是一个nonadult方式一-marked主题,且通过对比成人被动偏爱CLLD; 还出现了儿童因果性声音而较早地使用被动语态,以及使用具有无效通用主题的ClLD代替(俗称/venire)被动。干预局部性/相对性最小化在解释Friedmann,Belletti和Rizzi(2009)开发的系统中的明确结果以及随后的许多工作中起着至关重要的作用。