- Title Pages
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Merge and features: a minimalist introduction
- 2 Probing phrases, pronouns, and binding<sup>*</sup>
- 3 Wh‐agreement and bounded unbounded movement<sup>*</sup>
- 4 Universal 20 without the LCA<sup>*</sup>
- 5 What it means (not) to know (number) agreement<sup>*</sup>
- 6 Number agreement in the acquisition of English and Xhosa
- 7 Variable vs. consistent input: comprehension of plural morphology and verbal agreement in children<sup>*</sup>
- 8 Grammatical features in the comprehension of Italian relative clauses by children
- 9 When movement fails to reconstruct<sup>*</sup>
- 10 If non‐simultaneous spell‐out exists, this is what it can explain<sup>*</sup>
- 11 Valuing V features and N features: What adjuncts tell us about case, agreement, and syntax in general
- 12 The diversity of dative experiencers<sup>*</sup>
- 13 Homogeneity and flexibility in temporal modification<sup>*</sup>
- 14 The syntactically well‐behaved comparative correlative<sup>*</sup>
- 15 Some silent first person plurals<sup>*</sup>
- 16 From Greek to Germanic: Poly‐(*in)‐definiteness and weak/strong adjectival inflection<sup>*</sup>
- 17 Acquisition of plurality in a language without plurality<sup>*</sup>
- References
- Language Index
- Subject Index
Grammatical features in the comprehension of Italian relative clauses by children
Grammatical features in the comprehension of Italian relative clauses by children
- Chapter:
- (p.138) 8 Grammatical features in the comprehension of Italian relative clauses by children
- Source:
- Merging Features
- Author(s):
Fabrizio Arosio
Flavia Adani
Maria Teresa Guasti
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter addresses the question of how children exploit different grammatical devices in comprehending relative clauses. It shows that comprehension of relative clauses follows different developmental patterns defined by the kind of device that cue a subject or an object relative clause interpretation.
Keywords: relative clauses, subject/object asymmetry, number agreement, acquisition, processing
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- Title Pages
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Merge and features: a minimalist introduction
- 2 Probing phrases, pronouns, and binding<sup>*</sup>
- 3 Wh‐agreement and bounded unbounded movement<sup>*</sup>
- 4 Universal 20 without the LCA<sup>*</sup>
- 5 What it means (not) to know (number) agreement<sup>*</sup>
- 6 Number agreement in the acquisition of English and Xhosa
- 7 Variable vs. consistent input: comprehension of plural morphology and verbal agreement in children<sup>*</sup>
- 8 Grammatical features in the comprehension of Italian relative clauses by children
- 9 When movement fails to reconstruct<sup>*</sup>
- 10 If non‐simultaneous spell‐out exists, this is what it can explain<sup>*</sup>
- 11 Valuing V features and N features: What adjuncts tell us about case, agreement, and syntax in general
- 12 The diversity of dative experiencers<sup>*</sup>
- 13 Homogeneity and flexibility in temporal modification<sup>*</sup>
- 14 The syntactically well‐behaved comparative correlative<sup>*</sup>
- 15 Some silent first person plurals<sup>*</sup>
- 16 From Greek to Germanic: Poly‐(*in)‐definiteness and weak/strong adjectival inflection<sup>*</sup>
- 17 Acquisition of plurality in a language without plurality<sup>*</sup>
- References
- Language Index
- Subject Index
