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Aspects of the acquisition of object control and ECM-type verbs in European Portuguese
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We investigate the acquisition of sentential complementation under causative, perception,
and object control verbs in European Portuguese, a language rich in complement types including
the typologically marked inflected infinitives. We tested 58 children between 3 and 5 years and
24 adults on a sentence completion task. The results support two main hypotheses concerning
children’s initial biases in representing complement structure. The first pertains to argument
structure - a verb selects only one internal (propositional) argument (Single Argument Selection
Hypothesis), the other to syntactic structure – propositional complements are complete functional
complements (Complete Functional Complement Hypothesis). These initial biases lead children
to avoid raising-to-object and object control structures, in favor of finite complements and
inflected infinitive complements, the latter appearing in both target and non-target contexts.
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Raising-to-object Object control Inflected infinitive Portuguese
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Santos, Ana Lúcia; Gonçalves, Anabela; Hyams, Nina (2016): "Aspects of the acquisition of object control and ECM-type verbs in European Portuguese". Language Acquisition Journal, Volume 23, Issue 3. Taylor & Francis Online.