8. Avoid Phase: How interfaces provide critical triggers for wh-movement in acquisition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Syntactic complexity across interfaces 1
4. 2. Against complexity parameters 9
5. 3. Top-down derivation, recursion, and the model of grammar 25
6. 4. What small clauses can tell us about complex sentence structure 43
7. 5. Syntactic and prosodic integration and disintegration in peripheral adverbial clauses and in right dislocation/afterthought 75
8. 6. On representing anchored parentheses in syntax 107
9. 7. The development of subordination 137
10. 8. Avoid Phase: How interfaces provide critical triggers for wh-movement in acquisition 163
11. 9. Learning structures with displaced arguments 193
12. Index 227