Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian children

This paper investigates the syntax of Italian adverbs and the placement of finite and non-finite predicates in children's early spontaneous speech, aiming at shedding light on the relationship between adverb syntax and verb movement in early language acquisition. We analyzed the syntax of 31 ad...

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Autores: Patrizi, Sonia, Sanfelici, Emanuela|||0000-0003-2592-4528
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Adverbs
Hierarchy
Verb
Movement
Italian
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spelling Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian childrenPatrizi, SoniaSanfelici, Emanuela|||0000-0003-2592-4528AdverbsHierarchyVerbMovementItalianThis paper investigates the syntax of Italian adverbs and the placement of finite and non-finite predicates in children's early spontaneous speech, aiming at shedding light on the relationship between adverb syntax and verb movement in early language acquisition. We analyzed the syntax of 31 adverbs in the spontaneous speech of 17 monolingual Italian-speaking children, aged 1;04 to 3;04. We verified whether the placement of adverbs in children's early production obeys the adverbial hierarchy as proposed in Cinque (1999), and how high the predicate moves in the fine-grained array of clausal projections. Our findings reveal that children's use of adverbs adheres to the hierarchy of functional projections proposed in theoretical literature (Cinque 1999/2006) from an early stage. Furthermore, our results indicate that verb placement is established in a target-like manner from early on, consistent with prior acquisition research (Clahsen 1990, Guasti 1993), reaching a clausa-medial position compatible with that identified for adults (Schifano 2018). Overall, this work provides a fine-grained picture of the adverbial hierarchy and of the placement of finite and non-finite predicates in Italian children's early productions. 22026-01-0120262026-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/325375https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.526reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:3253752026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian children
title Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian children
spellingShingle Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian children
Patrizi, Sonia
Adverbs
Hierarchy
Verb
Movement
Italian
title_short Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian children
title_full Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian children
title_fullStr Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian children
title_full_unstemmed Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian children
title_sort Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian children
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Patrizi, Sonia
Sanfelici, Emanuela|||0000-0003-2592-4528
author Patrizi, Sonia
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Sanfelici, Emanuela|||0000-0003-2592-4528
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author2 Sanfelici, Emanuela|||0000-0003-2592-4528
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Adverbs
Hierarchy
Verb
Movement
Italian
topic Adverbs
Hierarchy
Verb
Movement
Italian
description This paper investigates the syntax of Italian adverbs and the placement of finite and non-finite predicates in children's early spontaneous speech, aiming at shedding light on the relationship between adverb syntax and verb movement in early language acquisition. We analyzed the syntax of 31 adverbs in the spontaneous speech of 17 monolingual Italian-speaking children, aged 1;04 to 3;04. We verified whether the placement of adverbs in children's early production obeys the adverbial hierarchy as proposed in Cinque (1999), and how high the predicate moves in the fine-grained array of clausal projections. Our findings reveal that children's use of adverbs adheres to the hierarchy of functional projections proposed in theoretical literature (Cinque 1999/2006) from an early stage. Furthermore, our results indicate that verb placement is established in a target-like manner from early on, consistent with prior acquisition research (Clahsen 1990, Guasti 1993), reaching a clausa-medial position compatible with that identified for adults (Schifano 2018). Overall, this work provides a fine-grained picture of the adverbial hierarchy and of the placement of finite and non-finite predicates in Italian children's early productions.
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