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Abstract
Previous cross-linguistic research showed that verbal passives are delayed in child grammar. Moreover, Maratsos et al. (1985) found that actional passives elicit more adult-like results than non-actional passives in child English. Hirsch & Wexler (2006) proposed that the adult-like results children achieved with actional passives are due to a resultative adjectival passive analysis, unavailable for non-actional verbs. Alternatively, Snyder & Hyams (2015) proposed that this delay is due to the need of semantic coercion to passivize non-actional verbs. Here we present an experiment testing children’s comprehension of short and long passives of actional and perception verbs in European Portuguese, a language with different auxiliaries for adjectival and verbal passives. The results replicate previous findings for English, despite the difference in auxiliary.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest |
| Editors | A. Dragomirescu, A. Nicolae |
| Place of Publication | Amsterdam |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Pages | 9-27 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789027258427 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789027210050 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2021 |
Publication series
| Name | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory |
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| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Volume | 355 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0304-0763 |
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Desarrollo, adquisición y mecanismos de variación lingüística
Gavarró Algueró, A. (Principal Investigator), Armstrong Abrami, M. (Collaborator), Guasti, M. T. (Collaborator), Kunnari, S. M. (Collaborator), Posada, A. (Collaborator), Sultan, S. E. (Collaborator), Balari Ravera, S. (Investigator), Longa Martínez, V. M. (Investigator), Lorenzo González, G. (Investigator), Vanrell Bosch, M. D. M. (Investigator) & Cruz Saez, A. (Collaborator)
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
1/01/18 → 30/09/21
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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La variación en la interfaz léxico-sintaxis
Mateu Fontanals, J. (Principal Investigator), Gavarró Algueró, A. (Principal Investigator 2), Acedo Matellán, V. (Collaborator), Cantu Sánchez, M. (Collaborator), Crespi Riutort, I. (Collaborator), Franck, J. (Collaborator), Khouja Balada, M. (Collaborator), Llop Naya, A. (Collaborator), Mendes Agostinho, C. F. (Collaborator), Paradís Pérez, A. (Collaborator), Quintana Sanfeliu, O. (Collaborator), Real Puigdollers, C. (Collaborator), Roman Castells, M. (Collaborator), Salva Puig, S. (Collaborator), Sánchez Candela, N. (Collaborator), Bartra Kaufmann, A. (Investigator), Massanell Messalles, M. D. M. (Investigator), Picallo Soler, M. D. C. (Investigator), Rigau Oliver, G. (Investigator) & Sola Pujols, J. (Investigator)
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO)
1/01/15 → 31/12/18
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants