Tagalog Relative Clause Production: Data from Adults and Children

dc.contributor.authorTanaka, Nozomi
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-13T01:57:33Z
dc.date.available2021-01-13T01:57:33Z
dc.date.issued2015-02-01
dc.description.abstractTagalog uses a focus system, where verbal affixation and case marking work in coordination to mark the syntactically prominent argument. Whether Tagalog has a nominative-accusative system or an ergative.absolutive system has long been a matter of discussion among linguists. The current study investigates the acquisition of relative clauses in Tagalog using an elicited production task and asks whether the acquisition of Tagalog relativization follows previously reported findings for nominative-accusative languages or ergative-absolutive languages. The results show that the overall pattern fits that of nominative-accusative languages. The study’s child participants, however, showed a bimodal distribution, indicating that some children treat the language as nominative-accusative, while others analyze it as an ergative-accusative language.*
dc.identifier.citationTanaka, Nozomi. 2015. Tagalog Relative Clause Production: Data from Adults and Children. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Working Papers in Linguistics 46(1).
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/73254
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i at Mānoa Department of Linguistics
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of Hawai‘I at Mānoa Working Papers in Linguistics
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License
dc.subjectlinguistics
dc.titleTagalog Relative Clause Production: Data from Adults and Children
prism.volume2015

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