
This data set includes the supplementary material for the article "The uses of clitic si in Child Italian". All content is documented in the README.md file. Abstract: This paper investigates the different uses of the clitic si in Child Italian. Through a corpus study on spontaneous productions of children aged 1;4-3;4, we check whether all functions of si are realized by children and we give a new perspective from language acquisition to a long-standing debate, namely whether there exists only one type of si or whether there are many different ones. Our results show that Italian children use si productively and adult-like early on, and they produce all its different functions: impersonal, anticausative, true reflexive, and inherent reflexive – although at different rates. We claim that our results support the one si approaches, and the difference in the frequencies of si functions reflects the structural complexity of some structures.
first language acquisition, clitic si, Italian, impersonal, syntax
first language acquisition, clitic si, Italian, impersonal, syntax
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