Minimal Answers Page 1 XX Ana Lúcia Santos Minimal Answers Ellipsis, syntax and discourse
in the acquisition of European Portuguese Lan gu age A cqu isition & Lan gu age D isord ers 48 …

This study investigated the role of typological relatedness, language of the community, and
age, in predicting similarities and differences between English–Italian, Spanish–Italian …

Children up to school age have been reported to perform poorly when interpreting
sentences containing restrictive and additive focus particles by treating sentences with a …

Children's ability to interpret color adjective noun phrases (eg, red butterfly) as contrastive
was examined in an eyetracking study with 6-year-old Russian children. Pitch accent …

Children often produce nonadult responses to sentences with the focus operator only, such
as Only the cat is holding a flag. For example, children often accept this sentence as a …

This study provides experimental evidence for preschool children's competence in basic
information structure, with particular attention to the notions of topic and focus. It investigates …

How do children develop the mapping between prosody and other levels of linguistic
knowledge? This question has received considerable attention in child language research …

Focus sentences in Hungarian are claimed to express exhaustive identification by a
syntactic-semantic operator in standard generative descriptions, but there are also …

Focus movement to a left-peripheral position has been posited for both Hungarian and
Italian. In this paper I argue against a unified cartographic treatment of focus movement …

Word order variation in Romance and Bantu has been related to information structure
portrayed in the different discourse functions of the sentential elements involved. Based on …