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  title info:
    title: Principle B, VP ellipsis, and interpretation in child grammar
  name:
    name part: Thornton, Rosalind.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Wexler, Kenneth.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Annotation Among the universal principles are those known as the principles of the binding theory. These principles constrain the range of interpretations that can be assigned to sentences containing reflexives and reciprocals, pronouns, and referring expressions. The principle that is relevant for pronouns, Principle B, has provided a fertile ground for the study of linguistic development. Although it has long been known that children make certain kinds of errors that appear to contradict this principle, further experimental and theoretical investigation reveals that the child does know the grammatical principle, but implements the pragmatic knowledge incorrectly. In fact, discoveries concerning children's knowledge of Principle B are among the most well-known in the study of language acquisition because of the dissociation between syntactic and pragmatic knowledge (binding versus reference). In this book the authors deepen and extend the results of years of developmental investigation of Principle B by studying the interaction of Principle B with verb phrase ellipsis and properties of the interpretation of empty pronouns in ellipsis -- properties of "strict" and "sloppy" interpretation. This is the first experimental study of these topics in the developmental literature. The striking results show that detailed predictions from the "pragmatic deficiency" theory seem to be correct. Many novel experimental results concern the question of how children interpret pronouns, including elided pronouns, and how they understand VP ellipsis. The authors present the necessary theoretical background on Principle B, review and critique previous accounts of childrens errors, and present a novel account of why children misinterpret pronouns. The book will thus be of interest not only to readers interested in the development of the binding theory, but to those interested in the development of interpretation and reference by children.
  note: Rosalind Thornton and Kenneth Wexler.
  subject:
    topic: Language acquisition
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Pronoun
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
  subject:
    topic: LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/Language Acquisition
  classification: P118 .T49 1999eb
  classification: 401/.93
  identifier: 0585104603
  identifier: 9780585104607
  identifier: 9780262201193
  identifier: 0262201194
  identifier: 9780262700696
  identifier: 0262700697
  identifier: 9780262284974
  identifier: 0262284979
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 981106
    record change date: 20221121162423.7
    record identifier: in00004601151
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng