Repositorio da Producao Cientifica e Intelectual da Unicamp: A aquisição da periferia esquerda da sentença em portugues brasileiro
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Title: A aquisição da periferia esquerda da sentença em portugues brasileiro
Author: Grolla, Elaine
Advisor: Perroni, Maria Cecilia, 1947-
Abstract: This Dissertation makes use of the Generative framework in its PrincipIes and Parameters version (Chomsky (1981» and tries to describe the acquisition of the left perlphery of sentences in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). All the child's productions containing one of the following phenomena were collected: topic-comment structures, cleft sentences, WH questions and relative sentences. The acquisition ofthe left periphery in BP is relatively slow, starting at 2;0, with the child's first WH questions, and, until the last recording session, some new structures can be found, as WH in situ questions. This process is extremely rich and, during this period, the child shows a great number of sophisticated constructions involving more than one phenomenon at once, for example: 'a boneca, foi o papai que comprou na loja' ('the doll, it was daddy that bought it at the store'). This sentence involves a topic (the doll) and a c1eftsentence (it was daddy that bought it at the store). The study also offers an analysis of the constructions with resumptive pronouns and WH in situ questions that occur in the child' s corpus. It is shown that the acquisition of resumptive pronouns takes a very particular path. This is explained based on the hypothesis that resumptive pronouns are a last resort strategy, that must be used to save a construction that, otherwise, would be agrammatical. Because resumptive pronouns are a last resort strategy avaliable only in a few languages, the pattem found in the acquisition of such elements is expected. The relative delay in the acquisition of WH in situ, on the other hand, constitutes a surprising fact, that can be explained if the cue-based hypothesis (Lightfoot (1999), among others) is adopted.
Subject: Aquisição de linguagem
Princípios e parâmetros (Linguística)
Citation: GROLLA, Elaine. A aquisição da periferia esquerda da sentença em portugues brasileiro. 2000. 95 p. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Campinas, SP. Disponível em: <http://www.repositorio.unicamp.br/handle/REPOSIP/270946>. Acesso em: 2 ago. 2018.