RT info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis
T1 The spontaneus production of passives by English monolingual children
A1 Garabal Vaquero, Santiago Manuel
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB This undergraduate dissertation presents a grammatical study on the production of the passive structures by English monolingual children. The passive produced are classified according to a three-paired typology (i.e. short versus long, adjectival versus verbal, and actional versus nonactional passives). The type of data analyzed in the study is spontaneous and reflects the production of seventeen North American speaking children (3;0-10;0 years old) from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000). The analysis of the data points out three main results: i) short passives are more frequently produced than long passives, especially at early ages; ii) verbal passives are more often produced than adjectival passives; and iii) nonactional passives are very scarce in the production of children. An additional unexpected result was derived from the analysis, i.e. the usage of get as an auxiliary in the passive structure is more frequent than the usage of be. This study concludes that certain types of passives are favored by monolingual children depending on the length or the type of lexical verb found in the structure.
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/45165
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/45165
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 28-abr-2024