Pronouns in competition : predicting acquisition delays cross-linguistically
It is well known that English children between the age of 4 and 6 display a so-called Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) in that they allow pronouns to refer to a local c-commanding antecedent. Their guessing pattern with pronouns contrasts with their adult-like interpretation of reflexives. The DPBE has been explained as resulting from a lack of pragmatic knowledge or insufficient cognitive resources. However, such extra-grammatical accounts cannot explain why the DPBE only shows up in particular languages and in particular syntactic environments. Moreover, such accounts fail to explain why t... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | bookpart |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2007 |
Schlagwörter: | Bindungstheorie / Sprachwahrnehmung / Sprachproduktion / Spracherwerb / Referenz / Sprachverstehen / Genus verbi / Anapher <Syntax> / Referenzidentität / Optimalitätstheorie / Deutsch / Niederländisch / Italienisch / ddc:410 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Link(s) : | http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31013 |