O comportamento sintático do clítico ME no processo de aquisição do português brasileiro

Abstract

We propose to investigate the syntactic behavior of clitics ME during the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) as a mother language. We present, using data from two monolingual Brazilian children, aged 1;9.8 to 3;0.15, the use of the clitic ME in BP declarative sentences . We intend to observe which syntactic elements require the use of ME during the acquisition of BP. For this, we note specifically the relationship between the ME and the use of prepositions in the speech of children (PIRES, 2010). We aim to present the predominance of the null object in the sentences produced by them, configuring, thus the most used during the acquisition period. We also observe the alternation between the clitic and the "nominative" pronoun EU, as another possibility to fill the object used in BP, since such a phenomenon can be seen in some sentences of children. For these purposes, we use the theoretical framework of Generative Grammar (Chomsky, 1981 onwards) and methodological support of the CHILDES system to the treatment and encoding all data analyzed.