| Автор | VAN VALIN, ROBERT D. |
| Дата выпуска | 2002 |
| dc.description | Rowland & Pine (2000) present an analysis of the development of subject–auxiliary inversion in wh-questions in the speech of Adam from the Brown corpus. They show that there is an uninversion period in which the child fails to invert the subject and auxiliary in wh-questions, and they argue that this is a function of the frequency of wh-word+auxiliary collocations in the input: the more frequent a particular collocation is in the input, the more likely it is to be inverted in the childʼs speech. In this note an alternative analysis is proposed: the initial position of the tensed auxiliary signals interrogative illocutionary force, and the auxiliaries which are most reliably inverted are those that are overtly tensed morphologically. This analysis not only accounts for Rowland & Pineʼs data but also extends to inversion in yes–no questions. The analysis predicts three different patterns for the development of inversion in both types of questions, and it is shown that all three are attested. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | The development of subject–auxiliary inversion in English wh-questions: an alternative analysisAn earlier version of this paper was presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. I would like to thank Jeri Jaeger, Jean-Pierre Koenig and two anonymous referees for comments on an earlier draft. |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0305000901004974 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-7602 |
| Print ISSN | 0305-0009 |
| Журнал | Journal of Child Language |
| Том | 29 |
| Первая страница | 161 |
| Последняя страница | 175 |
| Аффилиация | VAN VALIN ROBERT D.; University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; |
| Выпуск | 1 |
