The emergence of subjects in Lebanese two-year-olds

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 d...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of child language Jg. 51; H. 1; S. 234 - 247
Hauptverfasser: ABBOUD, Layal, CHOUEIRI, Lina, SEIFEDDINE, Nour, TULLER, Laurice
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: England Cambridge University Press 01.01.2024
Schlagworte:
Adolescent
Adolescent mothers
Arabic language
Child
Child Development
Child Language
Children
Children & youth
Female
Grammatical subject
Humans
Hypotheses
Language
Language Development
Language disorders
Language Impairments
Mothers
Native language acquisition
Older children
Predicate
Preferences
Semitic Languages
Sentences
Speech
Syntactic movement
Syntax
Verbs
Word Order
Young Children
Lebanon
language acquisition
Lebanese Arabic
subjects with verbal/non-verbal predicates
ISSN:0305-0009, 1469-7602, 1469-7602
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Zusammenfassung: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.
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ISSN:0305-0009
1469-7602
1469-7602
DOI:10.1017/S0305000922000587