Absolutive constructions in brazilian portuguese and relativized minimality effects in children's productions
It has been a consensus that object relative clauses (as (2) below) are more difficult to process than subject relative clauses (as (1) in adult language (Wanner Maratsos, 1978; Traxler, Morris Seely, 2002; Gibson, Desmet, Grodner, Watson Kara, 2005) As far as acquisition is concerned, children's difficulty with object relative clauses has also been widely attested in different languages both in comprehension (de Villiers, Tager Flusberg, Hakuta Cohen, 1979; Goodluck Tavakolian, 1982; Hamburger Crain, 1982; Correa, 1995) and production (Labelle, 1990; Guasti Cardinalletti, 2003; Utzeri, 2007; Belletti Contemori, 2010; Adani, Sehm Zukowski, 2012)