Development of Principle B in Russian: Coindexation at LF and Coreference  

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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. 2 no. 4 (1992), page 259-306.
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This article presents evidence in the development of Russian for a theory that says that children at a certain age know a syntactic principle (Principle B of the Binding Theory) that governs the distribution of pronouns but that they do not know a pragmatic or semantic principle (Principle P) that restricts the situations in which NPs may be contra:indexed. The major result concerns Russian possessive pronouns that must be disjoint from subject antecedents. We show that this result follows from the raising of pronouns at Logical Form together with Principles Band P. The prediction thus is that children who do not know Principle P will accept this sentence. We experimentally confirm this result. We also predict that children will reject sentences with possessive pronouns that are bound by quantifiers. We also confirm this prediction. Along the way we replicate in Russian known results in English and other languages. The pattern of results provides strong support for the Principle P /modularity theory.

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