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    "pk": 6859,
    "title": "Wh- Movement in Child Catalan",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This study examines the production of wh-questions in the speech off our monolingual child speakers of Catalan who were recorded longitudinally as part of the study carried out by Serra & Sole, obtained from the CHILDES Data Base (MacWhinney & Snow, 1985). In this data all wh-questions produced appeared to be adult-like, in contrast with the non-adult-like production of this construction in child English, Swedish, Dutch and German. However, there is an initial period in which no wh-questions at all are produced, in spite of the fact that other aspects of syntax, such as negation, clitic-placement and complementation seem adult-like in this same period. During this \"no wh-question\" period, there is a concomitant absence of verbal tense morphology, with the exceptions of present and irrealis forms (imperatives, root infinitives, root gerunds and root participles). Interestingly, the onset of wh-questions appears to correlate with the onset of a much wider variety of tense morphology. Given this observation and Rizzi's (1991) hypothesis that wh-questions and tense morphology are crucially linked in adult syntax, I propose that the early absence of wh-questions is a consequence of the early underspecification of tense.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Applied Linguistics"
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    "section": "Articles",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sk776ph",
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        {
            "first_name": "John",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Grinstead",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Northern Iowa",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2010-07-22T07:00:00Z",
    "date_accepted": "2010-07-22T07:00:00Z",
    "date_published": "2001-06-30T07:00:00Z",
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