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......
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(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...
“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 other hand, can be more tricky for English language learners to master as these are open questions with many possible ...
shows that this specialization is a characteristic of the combination of the examined negated verb forms with indirect wh-interrogative clauses, whereas combinations with other complement types either do not occur at all in the corpus (indirect polar questions and complement clauses introduced byche)...
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...
In Italian, indicative embedded questions require inversion, while subjunctive embedded questions do not. See Watanabe (1994b) for discussion of this contrast. Google Scholar In view of the fact that some Spanish verbs allow the sequence complementizerwh phrase in their complements (Rivero 1994b an...
The interaction of syntax, prosody, and discourse in licensing French wh-in-situ questions The current experiment addresses the proposal by Cheng and Rooryk (2000) that wh-in-situ questions in French are marked by an obligatory rising contour, wh... V Déprez,K Syrett,S Kawahara - 《Lingua...
Please choose the correct 'Wh' form to complete the questions below. Pay close attention toprepositionsegon,inandat. If you like you can try and let us know the answers to the questions too! Link: another 'wh...' lesson ___ section of the orchestra does the flute belong?