Child Language Acquisition - Neal Snape · 'Children's use of null auxiliaries in this type of...
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ChildLanguageAcquisition
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Wh underspecification
• Schütze andWexler(1996)arguethatTcanbeunderspecifiedfortense/agreementfeatures.
• MaybeTcanalsobeunderspecifiedfor[wh]feature.
• WhenTisspecifiedfora[wh]feature,theauxiliaryinTmovestoCtocheckthe[wh]feature.
Wh underspecification
• ButwhenTisnotspecifiedfor[wh]featuretheauxiliaryinTwillremaininsitu (nomovement)becausethereisno[wh]featuretocheck.
• Thereisnomovementoftheauxiliaryin14.
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Summary
• Children’sunderlyinggrammaristhesameasadults.
• TheCP/VPanalysisisofCP/questionsisconsistentwiththeContinuityview(orFunctionalanalysis)ofchildgrammars.
