What is it about?
Cross-linguistic analysis reveals that children start to produce direct and indirect objects early on. We have shown that French-speaking children prefer to omit indirect objects for a longer period of time compared to direct objects. This paper examines the effects of structural asymmetry and highlights the importance of learning the verb's lexical content.
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Why is it important?
Children possess the computational configuration of the target grammar. Our findings show that children have to learn the verb's lexical content in order to limit the scope of object omission.
Perspectives
First and foremost, it gave us great pleasure to co-author this project. We hope that this article helps people explore the variations and asymmetries that exist across languages, particularly those associated with comprehension and production of objects in different sentence structures.
Dr. Sophia Bello
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: L’acquisition des objets directs et indirects en français L1, Language Interaction and Acquisition, August 2022, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/lia.21003.bel.
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