On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring

This study investigates the production of clitic pronouns by monolingual Italian children aged 4;9-10;11, using a sentence repetition task including sentences with one or two restructuring verbs. The main findings are as follows: (i) children were more accurate with proclitics than enclitics, (ii) i...

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Autores: Cardinaletti, Anna|||0000-0002-9347-3434, Cerutti, Sara, Volpato, Francesca|||0000-0002-7103-4561
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.312
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Palabra clave:Restructuring
Clitic climbing
Acquisition
Italian
Structural economy
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spelling On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuringA study on monolingual Italian childrenCardinaletti, Anna|||0000-0002-9347-3434Cerutti, SaraVolpato, Francesca|||0000-0002-7103-4561RestructuringClitic climbingAcquisitionItalianStructural economyThis study investigates the production of clitic pronouns by monolingual Italian children aged 4;9-10;11, using a sentence repetition task including sentences with one or two restructuring verbs. The main findings are as follows: (i) children were more accurate with proclitics than enclitics, (ii) in their reproductions, they sometimes changed the clitic position and most often resorted to clitic climbing, to either the highest verb (in 2-verb sentences) or the intermediate verb (in 3-verb sentences), (iii) some instances of clitic reduplication were found, with similar tendencies as placement changes, (iv) no difference was observed between modal and motion verbs. These results show that restructuring is fully available to children and they prefer to produce monoclausal structures (Rizzi 1976, 1978/82; Cinque 2004) despite the long dependency established by clitic climbing. This in turn means that children's grammar is guided by Structural Economy, like adults' grammar. Children however assumed that restructuring verbs may be lexical less often than adults. Children never produced clitic misplacement errors, replicating previous findings on monolingual acquisition. 22024-01-0120242024-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/289788https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.312reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:2897882026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring
A study on monolingual Italian children
title On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring
spellingShingle On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring
Cardinaletti, Anna|||0000-0002-9347-3434
Restructuring
Clitic climbing
Acquisition
Italian
Structural economy
title_short On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring
title_full On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring
title_fullStr On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring
title_full_unstemmed On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring
title_sort On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cardinaletti, Anna|||0000-0002-9347-3434
Cerutti, Sara
Volpato, Francesca|||0000-0002-7103-4561
author Cardinaletti, Anna|||0000-0002-9347-3434
author_facet Cardinaletti, Anna|||0000-0002-9347-3434
Cerutti, Sara
Volpato, Francesca|||0000-0002-7103-4561
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Volpato, Francesca|||0000-0002-7103-4561
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Restructuring
Clitic climbing
Acquisition
Italian
Structural economy
topic Restructuring
Clitic climbing
Acquisition
Italian
Structural economy
description This study investigates the production of clitic pronouns by monolingual Italian children aged 4;9-10;11, using a sentence repetition task including sentences with one or two restructuring verbs. The main findings are as follows: (i) children were more accurate with proclitics than enclitics, (ii) in their reproductions, they sometimes changed the clitic position and most often resorted to clitic climbing, to either the highest verb (in 2-verb sentences) or the intermediate verb (in 3-verb sentences), (iii) some instances of clitic reduplication were found, with similar tendencies as placement changes, (iv) no difference was observed between modal and motion verbs. These results show that restructuring is fully available to children and they prefer to produce monoclausal structures (Rizzi 1976, 1978/82; Cinque 2004) despite the long dependency established by clitic climbing. This in turn means that children's grammar is guided by Structural Economy, like adults' grammar. Children however assumed that restructuring verbs may be lexical less often than adults. Children never produced clitic misplacement errors, replicating previous findings on monolingual acquisition.
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