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Interference in the Production of Italian Subject and Object "wh"-Questions
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Guasti, Maria Teresa; Branchini, Chiara; Arosio, Fabrizio – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
We investigate the production of subject and object "who"- and "which"-questions in the Italian of 4- to 5-year-olds and report a subject/object asymmetry observed in other studies. We argue that this asymmetry stems from interference of the object copy in the AGREE relation between AgrS and the subject in the Spec of the verb phrase. We show that…
Descriptors: Italian, Young Children, Grammar, Verbs