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| Titel: |
Syntax and Epistemology in Guatemalan Children's Spanish: The Case of Non-Consciousness and Non-Coreference |
| Auteur: |
Minkoff, Seth |
| Verschenen in: |
Language acquisition |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 11 (2003) nr. 1 pagina's 33-62 |
| Jaar: |
2003-01-01 |
| Inhoud: |
In this article, I report results of an acquisition experiment with a group of Spanish-speaking children regarding their knowledge of a semantic restriction that prevents a referring expression from coreferring with a pronoun in certain syntactic configurations if its referent lacks consciousness. Sixteen children (5 to 7 years old) participated in a modified Truth-Value Judgment Task (Crain and McKee (1985)). I show children's performance on the relevant sentences to be very similar to that of adults. Individual participant analyses confirm that children at this age possess the relevant semantic knowledge. Finally, I provide a model that shows how children can acquire knowledge of the semantic constraint using only positive data, and I suggest an epistemological implication of this research. |
| Uitgever: |
Psychology Press |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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