Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement

This study compares the performance of Portuguese-German heritage children and adult L2 speakers of European Portuguese whose L1 is German with respect to two aspects of grammar, adverb placement and VP-ellipsis, which depend on a core syntactic property of the language, verb movement. The results s...

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Main Author: Santos, Ana Lúcia (author)
Other Authors: Flores, Cristina (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/40980
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/40980