Advances in Biolinguistics - The Human Language Faculty and Its Biological Basis
70 Koji Sugisaki the Minimal Search Condition, which locates the structurally closest element to the target position, why does t ...
argues that UG constrains syntactic operations to be structure-dependent, thereby excluding structure-independent ones from poss ...
Minimal Search (4) [C [TP canT [vP [young children] write stories]]] Minimal search thus establishes a relation between C and T, ...
which they classifi ed as a ‘prefi x’ error, was the kind of error in which an extra aux- iliary verb is attached to the sentenc ...
that crucially falsify the structure-independent auxiliary-fronting generaliza- tion, before reaching the age of 3.” (P ullum an ...
To summarize this section, evidence from the acquisition of complex yes/no questions in English is consistent with Choms ky’s (1 ...
For each child, I located the uses of yes/no questions with inversion and clas- sifi ed them into the following three types: (i) ...
(14) Sarah’s complex-subject yes/no questions: a. ∗ CHI: does that one get a button? (3;07:23, sarah070.cha: line 1222) b. ∗ CHI ...
As we can see, the majority of adult yes/no questions with inversion contained a simple subject (as in (12a)), and the interroga ...
then the data from child English reported in this study provide support for the view that the subject noun phrase originates and ...
the nominal) in simple yes/no questions crucially relies on the base- generation of the subject within the predicate, the absenc ...
3 An important question remains as to whether any part of the continuation of the derivation permits the nominal element within ...
Hyams, Nina. 1986. Language acquisition and the theory of parameters. Dordrecht: D. Reidel. Kitagawa, Yoshihisa. 1994. S ubjects ...
6 Make a good prediction or get ready for a locality penalty Maybe it’s coming late Hajime Ono, Kentaro Nakatani and Noriaki Yus ...
Rayner, 1982, Crain a nd Steedman, 1985, Altmann and Steedman, 1988, Trueswe ll, Tanenhaus, and Garnsey, 1994, Tanenha us, Spive ...
2 Expectations Koniecz ny and Döring (2003) investigated whether having an additional con- stituent dependent on the verb leads ...
had no major impact on the reading time of the verb, suggesting that the lexical or grammatical information that lowers the proc ...
(4) a. The detective hoped that the lieutenant knew [which accomplice [the shrewd witness would recognize in the lineup]]. b. T ...
c. adverbial in subordinate clause; dative NP in relative clause After NP-NOM [Adv] NP-ACC verb, NP-NOM [who [NP-DAT] NP-ACC ver ...
that a facilitation based on the semantic information of this kind did not occur, or at least was not strong enough to make an i ...
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