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Chapter 2. A child’s view of Romance modification

  • Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux
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Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics
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Abstract

Languages vary as to what kind of phrasal categories allow recursive iteration of self-same embedding. Children first learn an embedding rule, then must learn whether the rule can apply recursively or not. However, direct experience of recursive embedding is rare in the input. A study of recursive nominal modification in Spanish show children acquire different types of modification (possession, part-whole relations) at different times even if these are expressed with the same preposition de. This suggest that the domain of rule formulation is narrower than syntactic category (PPs) or even lexical particle (de). Bilingual children show delays in acquiring a first level of embedding rule but not in allowing the rule to be recursive. This suggests that learning recursive modification is not sensitive to the concomitant reductions in input in bilingual contexts. I argue that children learn that embedding rules are recursive by inference from the productivity of simple embedding rules. The evidence on the acquisition of recursive nominal modification points to the limitations of the parameter setting model of syntactic development.

Abstract

Languages vary as to what kind of phrasal categories allow recursive iteration of self-same embedding. Children first learn an embedding rule, then must learn whether the rule can apply recursively or not. However, direct experience of recursive embedding is rare in the input. A study of recursive nominal modification in Spanish show children acquire different types of modification (possession, part-whole relations) at different times even if these are expressed with the same preposition de. This suggest that the domain of rule formulation is narrower than syntactic category (PPs) or even lexical particle (de). Bilingual children show delays in acquiring a first level of embedding rule but not in allowing the rule to be recursive. This suggests that learning recursive modification is not sensitive to the concomitant reductions in input in bilingual contexts. I argue that children learn that embedding rules are recursive by inference from the productivity of simple embedding rules. The evidence on the acquisition of recursive nominal modification points to the limitations of the parameter setting model of syntactic development.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. A. Interfaces
  6. Chapter 1. Picard subject clitics 11
  7. Chapter 2. A child’s view of Romance modification 35
  8. Chapter 3. Definite determiners in Romance 57
  9. B. Bridging issues at the CP-TP-vP levels
  10. Chapter 4. Differential object marking, oblique morphology, and enriched case hierarchies 81
  11. Chapter 5. A deletion account of referential null objects in Basque Spanish 97
  12. Chapter 6. Same EPP, different null subject type 111
  13. Chapter 7. On (un)grammatical sequences of se s in Spanish 127
  14. Chapter 8. On the interpretation of the Spanish 1st person plural pronoun 143
  15. C. Bridging issues at the PP-DP levels
  16. Chapter 9. French ne … que exceptives in prepositional contexts 163
  17. Chapter 10. Interpreting reduplicated numerals in Old Ibero-Romance 177
  18. Chapter 11. Value and cardinality in the evaluation of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese 193
  19. Chapter 12. Formality by distance in Spanish and Catalan 207
  20. D. Bridging issues in linguistics
  21. Chapter 13. Cyclical change in affixal negation 225
  22. Chapter 14. Code-mixing and semantico-pragmatic resources in francophone Maine 243
  23. Chapter 15. Exceptionality and ungrammaticality in Spanish stress 257
  24. Index 273
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.360.02per

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. A. Interfaces
  6. Chapter 1. Picard subject clitics 11
  7. Chapter 2. A child’s view of Romance modification 35
  8. Chapter 3. Definite determiners in Romance 57
  9. B. Bridging issues at the CP-TP-vP levels
  10. Chapter 4. Differential object marking, oblique morphology, and enriched case hierarchies 81
  11. Chapter 5. A deletion account of referential null objects in Basque Spanish 97
  12. Chapter 6. Same EPP, different null subject type 111
  13. Chapter 7. On (un)grammatical sequences of se s in Spanish 127
  14. Chapter 8. On the interpretation of the Spanish 1st person plural pronoun 143
  15. C. Bridging issues at the PP-DP levels
  16. Chapter 9. French ne … que exceptives in prepositional contexts 163
  17. Chapter 10. Interpreting reduplicated numerals in Old Ibero-Romance 177
  18. Chapter 11. Value and cardinality in the evaluation of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese 193
  19. Chapter 12. Formality by distance in Spanish and Catalan 207
  20. D. Bridging issues in linguistics
  21. Chapter 13. Cyclical change in affixal negation 225
  22. Chapter 14. Code-mixing and semantico-pragmatic resources in francophone Maine 243
  23. Chapter 15. Exceptionality and ungrammaticality in Spanish stress 257
  24. Index 273
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