We argue for alternative wh-scope marking strategies in the acquisition of LD-questions. Direct Dependency involves a matrix non-referential wh-scope marker licensing a medial referential wh-phrase. L1 Partial wh-movement is well-documented cross-linguistically.We take the claim that children go through a stage involving wh-scope marking strategies, ungrammatical in the target language but reflecting parametric settings of other languages, a step further by arguing for the existence of L1 Indirect wh-Dependencies: thematrix scope marker is a referential wh-phrase quantifying over propositions, restricted by a subordinate wh-question over individuals. In L1 French, the matrix and subordinate wh-phrases appear in-situ or locally fronted, transparently reflecting the covert/overt syntax of Hindi wh-questions (Dayal 2000).We conclude that the syntax of L1 scope marking should be correlated with the acquisition of complementation.
Palasis, Katerina, Richard Faure & Frédéric Lavigne
2019. Explaining variation inwh-position in child French: A statistical analysis of new seminaturalistic data. Language Acquisition 26:2 ► pp. 210 ff.
Slavkov, Nikolay
2015. Long-distance wh-movement and long-distance wh-movement avoidance in L2 English: Evidence from French and Bulgarian speakers. Second Language Research 31:2 ► pp. 179 ff.
de Villiers, Jill G., Peter A. de Villiers & Thomas Roeper
2011. Wh-questions: Moving beyond the first phase. Lingua 121:3 ► pp. 352 ff.
Roeper, Tom & Jill de Villiers
2011. The Acquisition Path for Wh-Questions. In Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition [Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 41], ► pp. 189 ff.
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