VP-Ellipsis and Anaphora in Child Language Acquisition  

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Duffield, Nigel ; Matsuo, Ayumi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 9 no. 4 (2001), page 301-328.
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In this article, we report on experiments investigating children's knowledge of the constraints on ellipsis constructions in English, focusing on subtle contrasts between verb phrase-ellipsis (VPE) and VP-anaphora (VPA). These contrasts are oftheoretical interest insofar as they present an apparent learnability paradox: On one hand, the negative constraints on these constructions are underdetermined by the positive evidence available to the learner (Crain (1991"; on the other hand, languages systematically vary in the availability of VPE. Hence, it seems as if the consqaints cannot be directly encoded in Universal Grammar. Our results-from 2 parallel experiments employing the same stimuli but with different methodologies-show that young children can correctly distinguish VPE from VP A, respecting the constraints on each.

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