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The acquisition of reflexives and pronouns by Faroese children

  • Sigridur Sigurjónsdóttir
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Generative Linguistics and Acquisition
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Abstract

This article reports the results of an experimental study on the interpretation of reflexives and pronouns by Faroese-speaking children and adults. The experiment was a replication of a study on Icelandic reported in Sigurjónsdóttir (1992) and Sigurjónsdóttir and Hyams’ (1992), and was carried out to validate its findings. Faroese and Icelandic share certain pronominal features. Both have a long-distance anaphor, the interpretation of which is affected by different verb classes, and which also has a logophoric use. The Faroese results shed new light on binding in adult and child Faroese, and validate the most important finding of the Icelandic study, in that they show a developmental delay with both pronouns and the long-distance anaphor for one verb class. Keywords: binding; reflexives; pronouns; acquisition; Faroese; Icelandic; long-distance anaphor; logophor; coreference

Abstract

This article reports the results of an experimental study on the interpretation of reflexives and pronouns by Faroese-speaking children and adults. The experiment was a replication of a study on Icelandic reported in Sigurjónsdóttir (1992) and Sigurjónsdóttir and Hyams’ (1992), and was carried out to validate its findings. Faroese and Icelandic share certain pronominal features. Both have a long-distance anaphor, the interpretation of which is affected by different verb classes, and which also has a logophoric use. The Faroese results shed new light on binding in adult and child Faroese, and validate the most important finding of the Icelandic study, in that they show a developmental delay with both pronouns and the long-distance anaphor for one verb class. Keywords: binding; reflexives; pronouns; acquisition; Faroese; Icelandic; long-distance anaphor; logophor; coreference

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Argument structure and clause-internal syntax in children
  5. Animacy, argument structure and unaccusatives in child English 13
  6. Remarks on theoretical accounts of Japanese children’s passive acquisition 35
  7. Early or late acquisition of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese? 65
  8. The relationship between determiner omission and root infinitives in child English 89
  9. The semantics of the tense deficit in child Spanish SLI 107
  10. Part II. The DP domain
  11. The acquisition of reflexives and pronouns by Faroese children 131
  12. Pronouns vs. definite descriptions 157
  13. An L2 study on the production of stress patterns in English compounds 185
  14. The syntactic domain of content 205
  15. Part III. Learning theory
  16. There-insertion 251
  17. Metalinguistic skills of children 271
  18. Children’s Grammatical Conservatism 291
  19. Contributing to linguistic theory, language description and the characterization of language development through experimental studies 309
  20. A new theory of null-subjects of finite verbs in young children 325
  21. Index 357
https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.54.06sig

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Argument structure and clause-internal syntax in children
  5. Animacy, argument structure and unaccusatives in child English 13
  6. Remarks on theoretical accounts of Japanese children’s passive acquisition 35
  7. Early or late acquisition of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese? 65
  8. The relationship between determiner omission and root infinitives in child English 89
  9. The semantics of the tense deficit in child Spanish SLI 107
  10. Part II. The DP domain
  11. The acquisition of reflexives and pronouns by Faroese children 131
  12. Pronouns vs. definite descriptions 157
  13. An L2 study on the production of stress patterns in English compounds 185
  14. The syntactic domain of content 205
  15. Part III. Learning theory
  16. There-insertion 251
  17. Metalinguistic skills of children 271
  18. Children’s Grammatical Conservatism 291
  19. Contributing to linguistic theory, language description and the characterization of language development through experimental studies 309
  20. A new theory of null-subjects of finite verbs in young children 325
  21. Index 357
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