Abstract
The aim of this work is to describe the acquisition of passive structures, using a grammaticality test, to assess whether children distinguish the three types of passives (eventive, resultative and stative) and their different properties. The results reveal that, at five years old, children do not show significant differences in the judgments of grammaticality assigned to various types of passive, showing chance level performance, contrarily to the performance of six-year-old children. Grammaticality contrasts are not completely understood by children, but we can already notice a statistically significant development in the recognition of the contrast between eventive and stative passives, and resultative and stative passives.
| Original language | Portuguese |
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| Title of host publication | Textos Selecionados do XXIX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística |
| Editors | António Moreno |
| Place of Publication | Lisboa |
| Publisher | APL - Associação Portuguesa de Linguística |
| Pages | 237-248 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-989-97440-3-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | XXIX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística - Coimbra, Portugal Duration: 23 Oct 2013 → 25 Oct 2013 |
Conference
| Conference | XXIX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística |
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| Country/Territory | Portugal |
| City | Coimbra |
| Period | 23/10/13 → 25/10/13 |
Keywords
- Language acquisition
- Passive structure
- Eventive, resultative and stative passives
- Aquisição da linguagem
- Estrutura passiva
- Passivas eventivas, resultativas e estativas