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Agrammatic comprehension of simple active sentences with moved constituents: Hebrew OSV and OVS structures
"... this paper. We thank Michal Biran, Mali Gil, Aviah Gvion, and Dafna Wenkert-Olenik for their help in discussions and testing, and the participants for their patient participation. Address correspondence to Naama Friedmann, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: naa ..."
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this paper. We thank Michal Biran, Mali Gil, Aviah Gvion, and Dafna Wenkert-Olenik for their help in discussions and testing, and the participants for their patient participation. Address correspondence to Naama Friedmann, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: naamafr@post.tau.ac.il, http://www.tau.ac.il/~naamafr
Printed in the United States of America The neurology of syntax: Language
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Is NegP part of UG?
"... . Some researchers argue that sentential negation receives its own functional projection, NegP. Although this theory is well-motivated for English and French, we present linguistic and acquisitional evidence against a NegP analysis for German. The NegP analysis can be contrasted with an analysis whi ..."
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. Some researchers argue that sentential negation receives its own functional projection, NegP. Although this theory is well-motivated for English and French, we present linguistic and acquisitional evidence against a NegP analysis for German. The NegP analysis can be contrasted with an analysis which treats sentential negators as adverbs. The NegP analysis predicts that acquisition of sentential negation will pattern with acquisition of other functional categories (e.g., Agr(eement)P). The Adverbial analysis predicts that the acquisition of the sentential negator nicht 'not' will pattern with that of adverbial particles such as auch 'also' and schon 'already', which -- like nicht -- can modify NPs as well as VPs. Our results are more consistent with an Adverbial analysis than a NegP analysis of German. This suggests that UG does not provide a universal template specifying number and type of functional projections for all languages. Rather, sentential negation's universal properties e...
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"... • Set the scene (optional infinitives, representation of tense & agreement). • Present the data we found and the patterns we observed. • Use the patterns to constrain analyses of certain child constructions. • Introduce the ATOM (Schütze & Wexler 1996) analysis of the OI stage. • Propose an optimali ..."
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• Set the scene (optional infinitives, representation of tense & agreement). • Present the data we found and the patterns we observed. • Use the patterns to constrain analyses of certain child constructions. • Introduce the ATOM (Schütze & Wexler 1996) analysis of the OI stage. • Propose an optimality-theoretic extension that can predict our patterns. 1. The “optional infinitive stage” Over about the last 10 years, there has been extensive research into the productions of children at about age 2. It has been observed that, in many language, children at about this age sometimes make certain errors in their verbal forms. In particular, they seem to produce non-finite forms where finite forms are required in the adult language. (1) The Optional Infinitive Stage (Wexler 1998) a. Root infinitives are possible grammatical sentences for children in this stage (around 2 years) b. These infinitives coexist with finite forms c. The children nevertheless know the relevant grammatical Principles, e.g. head movement, checking, etc. An example of this from French: (2) ‡ Cabinets ouvrir. (Grégoire 1;9.28) Restroom open-INF ‘(I will) open the restroom (door)’ The verb form in (2) is in the infinitive form ouvrir, (as opposed to the correct first-person form ouvre [present]) Evidence has been found for an OI stage of this sort in at least:
