Input variability and late acquisition: clitic misplacement in European Portuguese

This paper reports a study on the acquisition of clitic placement by European Portuguese children aged 5, 6 and 7, using an elicitation task. Contrarily to what has been found for other languages, where children correctly place clitic pronouns from a very early age, our results show that European Po...

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Main Author: Costa, João (author)
Other Authors: Fiéis, Alexandra (author), Lobo, Maria (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10362/19444
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/19444