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Introduction |
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The acquisition of pronouns and definite articles |
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Universal grammar, modularity and acquisition |
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7 | (2) |
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The syntax of definite articles and pronouns |
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9 | (10) |
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Definite articles and pronouns as instantiations of D |
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Syntactic constraints on the interpretation of pronouns and DPs: the Binding Theory |
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16 | (3) |
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The acquisition of D: the role of underspecification, rich morphology and pragmatics |
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19 | (12) |
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Underspecification of functional categories |
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19 | (3) |
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Richness of inflectional morphology and acquisition |
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22 | (3) |
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The acquisition of reference |
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25 | (6) |
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Underspecification of the D-position |
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31 | (82) |
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31 | (1) |
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Non-referential NPs in adult and child languages: previous reserch |
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32 | (4) |
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32 | (1) |
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Children's interpretation of ``home'' |
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32 | (1) |
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VP/IP ellipsis in child language |
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33 | (1) |
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Complex nominals in children and adults |
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34 | (2) |
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``Non-specific NPs'' are DPs with expletive determiners |
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36 | (6) |
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Complex nominals in child Spanish |
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42 | (22) |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (12) |
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57 | (1) |
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57 | (3) |
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60 | (4) |
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64 | (1) |
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Constructions of Inalienable Possession |
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64 | (18) |
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64 | (3) |
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Binding, incorporation and the role of expletive determiners |
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67 | (1) |
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67 | (1) |
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D-CIPs:predication and expletive determiners |
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67 | (3) |
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S-CIPs: incorporation and reflexivity |
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70 | (7) |
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77 | (1) |
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``Rich'' agreement and the licensing of expletive determiners |
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77 | (4) |
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Predictions for language acquisition |
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81 | (1) |
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CIPs in child Dutch and Spanish: experimental evidence |
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82 | (19) |
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82 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (5) |
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88 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (1) |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (8) |
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101 | (12) |
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The acquisition of pronominal anaphora in Spanish and Dutch |
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113 | (86) |
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113 | (1) |
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DPBE as a pragmatics/syntax interface problem |
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114 | (5) |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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Binding and the creation of reflexive predicates |
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115 | (2) |
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117 | (2) |
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The ``Clitic exemption effect'': the role of inflectional morphology |
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119 | (19) |
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119 | (1) |
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119 | (4) |
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123 | (1) |
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Clitic-like behavior of Dutch weak DO pronouns |
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123 | (2) |
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Unclitic-like behavior of Dutch weak DO pronouns |
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125 | (1) |
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Non-clitic weak pronouns: PP complements |
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126 | (1) |
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Conclusions and predictions for acquisition |
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127 | (1) |
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The Dutch weak pronoun experiment |
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127 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (2) |
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130 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (1) |
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131 | (1) |
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Clitics as bound variables |
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132 | (3) |
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Cross-linguistic evidence |
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135 | (3) |
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Strong pronouns in Spanish |
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138 | (17) |
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138 | (1) |
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Spanish strong pronouns: Experiment I |
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139 | (1) |
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139 | (1) |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (1) |
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141 | (1) |
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141 | (1) |
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Strong DO pronouns: the role of clitic doubling |
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142 | (2) |
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Strong pronominal PP complements |
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144 | (4) |
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Spanish strong pronouns: Experiment II |
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148 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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148 | (4) |
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152 | (1) |
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152 | (2) |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (1) |
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A syntactic DPBE: the role of lexical feature acquisition |
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155 | (14) |
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155 | (1) |
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Previous research: the role of the A-Chain Condition |
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156 | (4) |
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The DPBE in Spanish: Experiment I |
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160 | (1) |
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160 | (1) |
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160 | (3) |
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163 | (1) |
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163 | (1) |
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163 | (2) |
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The DPBE in Spanish: Experiment II |
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165 | (1) |
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165 | (1) |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (1) |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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Lexical feature acquisition |
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169 | (10) |
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The role of overgeneralization in lexical feature acquisition |
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169 | (5) |
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Lexical feature acquisition and economy |
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174 | (5) |
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Global economy and computational effort |
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179 | (2) |
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181 | (18) |
Conclusions |
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199 | (2) |
References |
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201 | (14) |
Appendix I |
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215 | (26) |
Appendix II |
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241 | (6) |
Index |
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