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Children’s Grammar of Null Subjects: Evidence from Comprehension

Author(s) -

Robyn Orfitelli,

Nina Hyams

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

linguistic inquiry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.61

H-Index - 69

eISSN - 1530-9150

pISSN - 0024-3892

DOI - 10.1162/ling_a_00106

Subject(s) - grammar , linguistics , rule based machine translation , comprehension , interpretation (philosophy) , psychology , computer science , natural language processing , philosophy

The null subject (NS) stage is one of the best-described hallmarks of first language development. We present a series of experiments assessing children’s interpretation of NS sentences, as a way of testing the two main competing analyses of the phenomenon: grammatical accounts, under which young children’s grammars license NSs in declarative sentences; and performance accounts, which hold that chi...

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