Emerging NPIs: The acquisition of Dutch hoeven 'need'
Dutch modal verb hoeven 'need' is a Negative Polarity Item (NPI) because of its restricted distribution to certain negative contexts only. By investigating the distribution of this NPI in child Dutch, the paper explores a solution to a learnability problem raised by the existence of NPIs: how can a child acquire the limited distribution of an NPI in the absence of both direct and indirect negative evidence? Corpus data collected through CHILDES confirm children's employment of a conservative widening learning strategy to solve the learnability problem. This strategy entails that children start... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
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De Gruyter Mouton
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Link(s) : | https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/37283 |