Acquisition of Sentential Negation and Negative Concord
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Author | : Sumrah Arshad |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1420216836 |
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Book Synopsis Acquisition of Sentential Negation and Negative Concord by : Sumrah Arshad
Book excerpt: It has been shown in this thesis that the expression of negation in children's naturalistic spoken speech is adult-like to an maximum extent (with 97% ratio of correct and grammatical expression). If a language exhibits NC in adult language, NC is also reflected in children's language. If a language does not exhibit the presence of NC in adult language input, the same will also be reflected in children's grammar until or unless there is a strong motivation to do otherwise. Based on the cross linguistic evidence gathered in this thesis, it is also argued that stages of the acquisition of neg...