Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts

The present paper presents an experiment testing Portuguese-speaking children’s comprehension of different types of subject and object clefts – 'é que' clefts, standard clefts and pseudoclefts. We consider previous studies that explain asymmetric difficulties in the comprehension of struct...

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Main Authors: Maria Lobo, Ana Lúcia Santos, Carla Soares-Jesel, Stéphanie Vaz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-07-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/645