Children's Knowledge of Subjunctive Clauses: Obviation, Binding, and Reference  

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Wexler, Kenneth ; Avrutin, Sergey

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 8 no. 1 (2000), page 69-102.
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In this article, we report results of an acquisition experiment with a group of Russian-speaking children regarding their knowledge of syntactic and discourse-related restrictions on the interpretation of pronouns in subjunctive clauses. Eighteen children (4 to 5 years old) participated in a Truth-Value Judgment Task (Crain and McKee (1985)). Consistent with previous findings in English and Russian, in those constructions in which only syntactic knowledge is implicated, children's performance is very similar to that of adults. However, in those cases in which the correct interpretation of pronouns requires the knowledge of the interaction of syntactic and discourse-related constraints, children make significantly more errors. Individual participant analyses confirm that children at this age possess the relevant syntactic knowledge of subjunctive clauses. We also provide a model that shows how children acquire the knowledge of syntactic constraints using only positive data.

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