Wh- In Situ Production in Child French*. Gotowski, M. undefined, 2017. ![Wh- In Situ Production in Child French* [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex This article addresses claims that French children produce more wh-in situ questions than adults, and that this is motivated by a desire for more “economical” structure in regard to wh-question formation. Experimental results of an elicitation study with 19 children (3;09-5;08) conducted in Paris are reported. Results indicate that children do not demonstrate a preference for wh-in situ, contra previous research with corpora, and most are in fact completely adult-like. As a consequence, I argue that children are not motivated by an economical “in situ strategy”, and that they have the mechanism to produce fronted wh-questions with overt movement from as young as 3 years. Keywords: first language acquisition, syntax, wh-movement, wh-in situ, child French
@article{Gotowski:2017,
title = {Wh- {In} {Situ} {Production} in {Child} {French}*},
url = {https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Wh-In-Situ-Production-in-Child-French*-Gotowski/3e35fbe380cd522509fdff0cbea1c0714e4f49e8},
abstract = {This article addresses claims that French children produce more wh-in situ questions than adults, and that this is motivated by a desire for more “economical” structure in regard to wh-question formation. Experimental results of an elicitation study with 19 children (3;09-5;08) conducted in Paris are reported. Results indicate that children do not demonstrate a preference for wh-in situ, contra previous research with corpora, and most are in fact completely adult-like. As a consequence, I argue that children are not motivated by an economical “in situ strategy”, and that they have the mechanism to produce fronted wh-questions with overt movement from as young as 3 years. Keywords: first language acquisition, syntax, wh-movement, wh-in situ, child French},
language = {en},
urldate = {2022-02-15},
journal = {undefined},
author = {Gotowski, Megan},
year = {2017},
}
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