Wh -in-situ in child French: Deictic triggers at the syntax-semantics interface

This article investigates the development of wh -in-situ questions in French by examining a three-year kindergarten dataset of spontaneous productions with 16 children between 2;5 and 5;11. The distribution of the wh -phrases is statistically examined in relation to age, verb form (Fixed be form c’e...

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Published in:	Journal of French language studies Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 273 - 298
Main Authors:	Palasis, Katerina, Faure, Richard, Meunier, Fanny
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.11.2023 Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subjects:	Adults Adverbs Children Children & youth Classification Deixis French language Grammatical categories Humanities and Social Sciences Kindergarten Language Linguistics Pronouns Questions Semantics Syntax Syntax semantics relationship Verbs français L1 copula quoi/que alternation copule verbes lexicaux questions wh alternance quoi/que French lexical verbs acquisition wh-questions deixis
ISSN:	0959-2695, 1474-0079
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