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WH-‐Questions in Bimodal Bilinguals: Evidence for Language ...

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<strong>WH</strong>-­‐L<strong>in</strong>al (emphasis) and doubl<strong>in</strong>g <br />

<strong>in</strong> sign-­‐<strong>in</strong>Lluenced speech <br />

• Doubl<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> ASL and Libras can be described as resul-ng <br />

from choos<strong>in</strong>g a func-onal element with a strong <br />

[+focus] feature. <br />

• Morphological fusion of the focus head with the focused <br />

element permits both copies to be pronounced (Nunes & <br />

Quadros 2004). <br />

• If a head with this feature is chosen dur<strong>in</strong>g a ‘spoken <br />

language’ deriva-on, the non-­‐target structure will result. <br />

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