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dc.contributor.authorWestergaard, Marit
dc.date.accessioned2006-09-15T12:06:22Z
dc.date.available2006-09-15T12:06:22Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.description.abstractThis article reports on a study of three children acquiring a dialect of Norwegian which allows two different word orders in certain types of WH-questions, verb second (V2) and and verb third (V3). The latter is only allowed after monosyllabic WH-words, while the former, which is the result of verb movement, is the word order found in all other main clauses in the language. It is shown that both V2 and V3 are acquired extremely early by the children in the study (before the age of two), and that subtle distinctions between the two orders with respect to information structure are attested from the beginning. However, it is argued that V3 word order, which should be ìsimplerî than the V2 structure as it does not involve verb movement, is nevertheless acquired slightly later in its full syntactic form. This is taken as an indication that the V3 structure is syntactically more complex, and possibly also more marked.en
dc.descriptionIn special issue: Proceedings of SCL 19 - Acquisitionen
dc.format.extent82687 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.citationNordlyd 31.3(2003) pp 589-605en
dc.identifier.issn1503-8599
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/260
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_120
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUniversitetet i Tromsøen
dc.publisherUniversity of Tromsøen
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Allmenn språkvitenskap og fonetikk: 011en
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Nordiske språk: 018en
dc.subjectchild language acquisitionen
dc.subjectNorwegian languageen
dc.subjectword orderen
dc.subjectinformation structureen
dc.subjectmarkednessen
dc.titleOn the acquisition of word order in WH-questions in theTromsø dialecten
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelno


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