Production and comprehension of rhetorical questions in the acquisition of Italian as a first language
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| Název: | Production and comprehension of rhetorical questions in the acquisition of Italian as a first language |
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| Autoři: | Ferin, Maria Francesca, Kupisch, Tanja |
| Přispěvatelé: | Lund University, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Departments, Centre for Languages and Literature, Section 6, Division of Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics, General Linguistics, Lunds universitet, Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna, Institutioner, Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Sektion 6, Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik, Allmän språkvetenskap, Originator |
| Zdroj: | Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics. |
| Témata: | Humanities and the Arts, Languages and Literature, Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics, Humaniora och konst, Språk och litteratur, Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik, Studies of Specific Languages, Studier av enskilda språk |
| Popis: | This paper investigates the acquisition of rhetorical questions (RhQs) in monolingual children acquiring Italian, comparing the comprehension and production of RhQs based on their optional lexical, morphosyntactic, and prosodic cues. We show that 6-to-9-year-old children are in the process of acquiring the use of optional lexical and morphosyntactic markers in produc- tion (e.g. discourse particles, information structure), but only 9-year-olds show adult-like patterns. In comprehension, children from age 7 were able to consistently recognize RhQs through a combination of prosodic and lexico-syntactic cues, but only some children were able to do so based on prosody alone. Furthermore, the production frequency of lexico-syntactic markers correlated with accuracy in the comprehension task when a lexico- syntactic marker was involved. Our results suggest that the acquisition of RhQs and their pragmatic marking is still ongoing throughout the primary school years, in line with other phenomena at the interface between di er- ent modules of language, pragmatics, and communicative competence. |
| Přístupová URL adresa: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2025.2479497 |
| Databáze: | SwePub |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | This paper investigates the acquisition of rhetorical questions (RhQs) in monolingual children acquiring Italian, comparing the comprehension and production of RhQs based on their optional lexical, morphosyntactic, and prosodic cues. We show that 6-to-9-year-old children are in the process of acquiring the use of optional lexical and morphosyntactic markers in produc- tion (e.g. discourse particles, information structure), but only 9-year-olds show adult-like patterns. In comprehension, children from age 7 were able to consistently recognize RhQs through a combination of prosodic and lexico-syntactic cues, but only some children were able to do so based on prosody alone. Furthermore, the production frequency of lexico-syntactic markers correlated with accuracy in the comprehension task when a lexico- syntactic marker was involved. Our results suggest that the acquisition of RhQs and their pragmatic marking is still ongoing throughout the primary school years, in line with other phenomena at the interface between di er- ent modules of language, pragmatics, and communicative competence. |
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| ISSN: | 10489223 15327817 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10489223.2025.2479497 |