The acquisition of answers to yes – no questions in European Portuguese: syntactic, discourse and pragmatic factors

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This paper (i) describes the patterns of answers to yes-no questions in European Portuguese; (ii) presents data illustrating the acquisition of these patterns; (iii) argues that the acquisition of patterns of answer to yes-no questions in European Portuguese provides evidence for two types of modularity in the acquisition process: modularity of syntax, discourse and pragmatics and modularity within the computational system.

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Santos, A., (2003) “The acquisition of answers to yes – no questions in European Portuguese: syntactic, discourse and pragmatic factors”, Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 2(1), 61-91. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/jpl.36

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Ana Lúcia Santos (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

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