Stages rather than ages in the acquisition of movement structures: Data from sentence repetition and 27696 spontaneous clauses
What it is about
The study asks in what order Hebrew children acquire movement and embedding structures, and whether that order depends on age or on stage. A sentence-repetition task (60 children aged 2;2 to 3;10, 80 sentences each) and the spontaneous speech of 61 children (1;6 to 6;1, 27,696 clauses, plus a longitudinal analysis of five children) were analysed with Guttman scales. The order is the same in both tasks: A-movement first (unaccusative subject-verb order, with the object of an unaccusative moving to subject position), then A-bar movement (wh-questions first, then relative clauses and topicalization together with finite embedding), and last verb movement to C. Children differ strongly in the age at which they reach each stage. Until age 5;8, A-bar structures never had a lexical object crossing a lexical subject.
Ideas
- I1. Use a Guttman check as a measure: for a set of structures that a module handles, tabulate per test item which ones it gets right and check that the implicational order holds. A failure of the order is a bug in the module, not in the data.
- I2. Build a small repetition-style test set for Hebrew with four classes (unaccusative SV, passive or raising, wh and relative clauses, verb-to-C); parse it and check that the subject and the verb's arguments come out in the right roles.
- I3. A hard negative rule: a world reader must not give an object-over-subject reading to a sentence where both are lexical DPs and the A-bar movement is present, since the children in the study did not produce such structures before age 5;8.
For Mova
I1 applies to the stage tests of world and the English course tests (en). I2 is a test set for 7. Syntax (word order and subject readings) and 05. The verb: system, binyanim, tense and use (verb movement). I3 is a constraint for Syntax: the clause and the sentence and the Modern Hebrew plan in 12. Mova and Modern Hebrew: where it stands, what it would need. Nothing here changes the parser; it gives test sentences and an order to check against.
Cite
@article{friedmann2021stages,
title = {{Stages rather than ages in the acquisition of movement structures: Data from sentence repetition and 27696 spontaneous clauses}},
author = {Friedmann, Naama and Reznick, Julia},
journal = {Glossa: a journal of general linguistics},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.16995/glossa.5716},
url = {https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5716}
}References
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