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The Emergence of Subjects in Lebanese Two-Year-Olds

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Title: The Emergence of Subjects in Lebanese Two-Year-Olds
Language: English
Authors: Layal Abboud (ORCID 0000-0003-1654-7097), Lina Choueiri, Nour Seifeddine, Laurice Tuller
Source: Journal of Child Language. 2024 51(1):234-247.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 14
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabic, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Syntax, Word Order, Sentence Structure, Structural Grammar, Mothers
Geographic Terms: Lebanon
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000922000587
ISSN: 0305-0009
1469-7602
Abstract: In Lebanese Arabic, lexical subjects may occur before or after verbs, but only before non-verbal predicates. Analysis of spontaneous language samples from 19 two-year-old children shows that postverbal (VS) and preverbal (SV) subjects emerge simultaneously. The youngest children displayed no VS-SV difference in frequency. A slight preference for SV is observed in older children. No preference for SV subjects was found in the speech of the mothers of the younger or older children. Lexical subjects systematically appeared before non-verbal predicates. We interpret these results as evidence for early knowledge of syntactic movement, consistent with Wexler's (1998) Very Early Parameter Setting.
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  Data: In Lebanese Arabic, lexical subjects may occur before or after verbs, but only before non-verbal predicates. Analysis of spontaneous language samples from 19 two-year-old children shows that postverbal (VS) and preverbal (SV) subjects emerge simultaneously. The youngest children displayed no VS-SV difference in frequency. A slight preference for SV is observed in older children. No preference for SV subjects was found in the speech of the mothers of the younger or older children. Lexical subjects systematically appeared before non-verbal predicates. We interpret these results as evidence for early knowledge of syntactic movement, consistent with Wexler's (1998) Very Early Parameter Setting.
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