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).