Titlebook: Variation in the Input; Studies in the Acqui Merete Anderssen,Kristine Bentzen,Marit Westergaar Book 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B

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The Acquisition of Apparent Optionality: Word Order in Subject and Object Shift Constructions in No pragmatic principles, prosody, syntactic economy and effects of frequency in the input. The paper concludes that the delay in movement can best be explained by a principle of economy, while the difference between the two constructions is accounted for by reference to input frequency.

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1873-0043 a wide selection of languages The papers discuss new child The topic of variation in language has received considerable attention in the field of general linguistics in recent years. This includes research on linguistic micro-variation that is dependent on fine distinctions in syntax and informatio

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Optional Illusions,o different types of optionality that could in principle be found. First, we consider the possibility that children’s behavior, as documented in some experiments, reveals the selection of different grammars on different trials. Second, we focus on stages in which children’s hypothesis space mostly c

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,‘Optional’ Doubly-Filled COMPs (DFCs) in Wh-Complements in Child and Adult Swiss German,hich contexts they use them. The term DFC refers to a configuration in which a phrasal element (e.g. a wh-phrase) co-occurs with a complementizer (e.g. .) in COMP. The focus is on DFCs in wh-complements of Swiss German. The distribution of DFCs in samples of adult data from two dialects is compared

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The Acquisition of Adjectival Ordering in Italian,focalize on the distribution of quantifiers, determiner-like adjectives, possessive adjectives, and descriptive adjectives. In adult Italian, these elements display a great degree of variation as regards word order. Comparing child production with both the input attested in our corpus and the data f

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Word Order in the Development of Dative Constructions: A Comparison of Cantonese and English,onolingual and Cantonese-English bilingual children show that the children who are late in producing English prepositional datives also use the preposition . with fewer meanings and structures. It is argued that the ambiguity of English . influences the development of English prepositional datives.