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The emergence of subjects in Lebanese two-year-olds
Journal of Child Language ( IF 2.701 ) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 , DOI: 10.1017/s0305000922000587
Layal Abboud 1 , Lina Choueiri 2 , Nour Seifeddine 3 , Laurice Tuller 1
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In Lebanese Arabic, lexical subjects may occur before or after verbs, but only before non-verbal predicates. Analysis of spontaneous language samples from 19 two-year-old children shows that postverbal (VS) and preverbal (SV) subjects emerge simultaneously. The youngest children displayed no VS-SV difference in frequency. A slight preference for SV is observed in older children. No preference for SV subjects was found in the speech of the mothers of the younger or older children. Lexical subjects systematically appeared before non-verbal predicates. We interpret these results as evidence for early knowledge of syntactic movement, consistent with Wexler’s (1998) Very Early Parameter Setting.



中文翻译:

黎巴嫩两岁儿童中受试者的出现

在黎巴嫩阿拉伯语中,词汇主语可以出现在动词之前或之后,但只能出现在非动词谓词之前。对 19 名两岁儿童的自发语言样本的分析表明,言语后(VS)和言语前(SV)主体同时出现。最小的孩子没有表现出 VS-SV 频率差异。在年龄较大的儿童中观察到对 SV 有轻微的偏好。在年幼或年长孩子的母亲的言语中,没有发现对 SV 主题的偏好。词汇主语系统地出现在非语言谓语之前。我们将这些结果解释为句法运动早期知识的证据,与 Wexler (1998) 的早期参数设置一致。

更新日期:2022-10-24
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