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Supplementary material for the article "Children's production of Wh-questions across five language families"

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
  • 2. University of Milano-Bicocca
  • 3. Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Dipartimento di Psicologia
  • 4. ROR icon Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 5. ROR icon Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 6. ROR icon Pázmány Péter Catholic University
  • 7. ROR icon Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  • 8. ROR icon Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics

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This data set includes the supplementary material for the article "Children's production of Wh-questions across five language families". All content is documented in the README.md file.

Abstract: In this paper, we present data from an elicited production experiment involving matrix 'wh'-questions in five languages: German, Hungarian, Malayalam, Mandarin and Yoruba. The aim of our study was to replicate previously observed asymmetries (between subject and object 'wh'-questions, and between 'who' and 'which' N questions) in new languages, and to identify commonalities across languages in the production of non-target alternative forms of 'wh'-questions. Our findings suggest that the subject 'wh'-question advantage is generally observed, but not the 'who'-question advantage over the 'which'-question. This may indicate an unexpected difference between comprehension and 'which'-question production.

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