On the acquisition of focus in Hungarian

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dc.contributor.advisorRákosi, György
dc.contributor.authorDervishaj, Barbara
dc.contributor.departmentDE--Bölcsészettudományi Karhu_HU
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-21T07:59:36Z
dc.date.available2020-05-21T07:59:36Z
dc.date.created2020-04-26
dc.description.abstractRecent theoretical and empirical research has been focused on the exhaustive interpretation of the Hungarian preverbal focus construction. Views are divided if the exhaustivity is determined by a syntactic-semantic operator or if it can be attributed to pragmatic factors. Here, I attempt to test Reinhart’s (2006) Interface Theory of Focus which claims that focus is not syntactically encoded but it is identified at the interface. I conducted two child acquisition experiments since children have limitation of cognitive resources. Therefore, their performance was expected to be affected. It was found that in non-exhaustive context children did almost like adults when interpreting focus constructions with ‘only’ but they had significantly lower adult-like rejection rates in case of preVf. These data indeed suggest that Reinhart’s (2006) theory that focus is coded at the interface is right.hu_HU
dc.description.correctorN.E.
dc.description.courseAnglisztikahu_HU
dc.description.degreeMSc/MAhu_HU
dc.format.extent44hu_HU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2437/288009
dc.language.isoenhu_HU
dc.subjectacquisitionhu_HU
dc.subjectinterface theoryhu_HU
dc.subjectpreverbal focushu_HU
dc.subjectfocushu_HU
dc.subject.dspaceDEENK Témalista::Nyelvtudományhu_HU
dc.titleOn the acquisition of focus in Hungarianhu_HU
dc.title.translatedA magyar fókuszszerkezetek elsajátításárólhu_HU
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