No class (conference)

26 Março 2021, 14:00 • Ana Lúcia da Silva Dias Gonçalves Santos

There was no class, as announced in the beginning of the semester: the teacher participated in the   I Encontro em Linguística Aplicada, Escola Superior de Saúde da Universidade de Aveiro (online).

The students were invited to the following conference (also online):
26 / 03 / 2021,14.30 (WET)/ 15.30 (CET)
Petra Schulz (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), What never goes wrong in early second language acquisition of German: finiteness in verb-second clauses​ (Universidade do Minho)

The students were also given papers related to the topics discussed in the last classes, to read and summarize.

Hierarchical vs. linear definition of intervention effects: bridges between language acquisition and language processing

19 Março 2021, 14:00 • Ana Lúcia da Silva Dias Gonçalves Santos

Hierarchical vs. linear definition of intervention effects (bridges between language acquisition and language processing): the case of clefts and an argument for a hierarchical definition of intervention effects.

The relevance of comprehension and production of relative clauses and wh- questions in the assessment of children diagnosed with Developmental Language Disorder (and Specific Language Impairment), as well as Autism Spectrum Disorders (with linguistic impairment).

The acquisition of relative clauses

12 Março 2021, 14:00 • Ana Lúcia da Silva Dias Gonçalves Santos

The acquisition of relative clauses: classic studies and more recent approaches. Subject / object asymmetries in relative clauses (on a pair with other A-bar movement structures, namely wh- questions). The structure of subject and object relative clauses (raising analysis) and the interpretation of the delay in production and comprehension of object relatives (and D-linked wh- questions) as the  result of intervention effects (Friedmann, Belletti & Rizzi, 2009).

Acquiring more complex syntax: the acquisition of wh-questions

5 Março 2021, 14:00 • Ana Lúcia da Silva Dias Gonçalves Santos

Acquiring more complex syntax. The relevance of wh-questions, relative clauses and subordinate clauses in general to define language development after 2;0. General results and general observations resulting from the observation of corpus data - observation of spontaneous data from European Portuguese (online search in available corpora), as well as data from Italian corpora (Moscati & Rizzi, to appear) - and data collection using parental reports (CDI). The relevance of these observations for language assessment of young children. 

The complementarity between corpora and experimental studies in the study of more advanced stages of language acquisition: the case of wh- questions. Early spontaneous production of wh- questions; subject - object asymmetries identified by experiments on the comprehension of different types of wh- questions (which vs. who questions). 

What is the structure of early sentences?

26 Fevereiro 2021, 14:00 • Ana Lúcia da Silva Dias Gonçalves Santos

Discussion of the homework (exercises allowing to train the analysis developed in the previous class and allowing to explore new data).Root infinitives (RIs), their distribution across languages and in the languages in which they are identified. A hypothesis accounting for RIs which focus the functional structure of early sentences: the Truncation Hypothesis (Rizzi, 1993/1994). The special case of RIs in atypical development (also attested in null subject languages). 

A note on the discussion centred on functional architecture extended to cases of agrammatism (the "Tree Pruning Hypothesis", Friedmann & Grodzinsky, 1997).