Frolova, Anna
(2024).
« Verbal transitivity in child Russian: Optional object omission stage » (Colloque 50 ans de linguistique à l'UQAM : Regards croisés sur les enjeux de la linguistique, Université du Québec à Montréal, 22 au 24 avril 2021), sous la dir. de Pinsonneault, Reine et Léveillé, Yoann.
Montréal, pp. 97-110.
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The present paper examines verbal transitivity development in child Russian within a generative grammar framework. I use an elicited production task to investigate whether Russian-speaking children omit direct objects in perfective strongly transitive contexts. The results of 45 monolingual Russian children aged from 3 to 6 years showed that they optionally omitted direct objects in perfective strongly transitive contexts where adult controls used overt nouns. Russian-speaking children seem to have an optional object omission stage as it has been attested in several typologically different languages. The results also showed that children employed appropriate aspectual and tense morphology, and no correlation has been established between acquisition of verbal aspect and direct object omissions. I hypothesize that the non-adult-like object omissions in strongly transitive contexts in child Russian can be explained by the acquisition of nominal quantificational properties.
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