We aim at determining whether 7-year-old Italian-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI): (1) have problems with the production of wh- questions; (2) display a subject/object asymmetry in producing which- and who questions; (3) attempt to simplify questions, especially which...
wh-questionsFocusNuclear pitch accentMain stressSuccessive cyclic derivationThis paper addresses two long-standing issues concerning focus: first, the question of whether the focal interpretation is directly read off the prosodic structure of a sentence, or it is rather......
(ii) discussing a difference between simple and cleft wh-questions. While simple wh-questions with marginalized DPs (in the sense of Antinucci and Cinque 1977 and Cardinaletti 2001, 2002) are ambiguous between a subject and an object reading of those DPs, cleft wh-questions are not ambiguous...
To be able to clearly communicate in English and hold a conversation, students must learn how to use “Wh Questions” and “Yes/No Questions”. Asking and answering yes/no questions in a conversation is quite easy as there are only two possible answers: yes and no. Wh questions, on the...
In Detail: Questions about Objects Structure:Wh-Question word+Helping Verb+Subject+Main Verb Whatdoyoulike? Answer: I likebasketball. (basketballis the object of the verb in the sentence; we are asking about the object.) To make a question about theobjectof a sentence, you need a helping ...
1Questions 15 through 17 are based on the following conversation.W: Hi Leo, why do you say English would become the world language?M: Well, for one thing, it's so commonly used. The only language that is used by more people isChinese.W: Why is English spoken by so many people?M:...
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摘要: _l_his chapter sketches out the fine structure of the left periphery of questions as it emerges from our ongoing research on French, Bellunese, and Italian wh-questions (see Pollock et al. 1999; Poletto and Pollock 1999, 2000; Pollock 2000). The two basic principles that...
this paper, I present a new approach to the syntax of German wh-questions within the HPSG framework. This approach allows a straightforward syntactic analysis of wh- interrogatives and can be easily integrated in a semantic analysis for questions as has been shown by [Egg&Feldhaus 97]. The ...
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: html_title Rhetorical Questions and Wh -Movement /html_title Jon Sprouse 1 Observations Rhetorical questions (RQs) have the syntactic form of a question but the semantic value of a declarative ( Sadock 1971 , Han 2002 ). In...