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Garcia, R. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1363-542X, Dery, J.E., Roeser, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-4463-0923 and Höhle, B.,
2018.
Word order preferences of Tagalog-speaking adults and children.
First Language, 38 (6), pp. 617-640.
ISSN 0142-7237
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Abstract
This article investigates the word order preferences of Tagalog-speaking adults and five- and seven-year-old children. The participants were asked to complete sentences to describe pictures depicting actions between two animate entities. Adults preferred agent-initial constructions in the patient voice but not in the agent voice, while the children produced mainly agent-initial constructions regardless of voice. This agent-initial preference, despite the lack of a close link between the agent and the subject in Tagalog, shows that this word order preference is not merely syntactically-driven (subject-initial preference). Additionally, the children’s agent-initial preference in the agent voice, contrary to the adults’ lack of preference, shows that children do not respect the subject-last principle of ordering Tagalog full noun phrases. These results suggest that language-specific optional features like a subject-last principle take longer to be acquired.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | First Language | ||||
| Creators: | Garcia, R., Dery, J.E., Roeser, J. and Höhle, B. | ||||
| Publisher: | Sage | ||||
| Date: | 2018 | ||||
| Volume: | 38 | ||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||
| ISSN: | 0142-7237 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||
| Date Added: | 21 Aug 2018 13:10 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2019 08:17 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/34366 |
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