Fragments Along the Way: Minimalism as an Account of Some Stages in First Language Acquisition

We discuss two instances in which the minimalist model of syntax offers a potential account of children's linguistic behavior: the Merge analysis of phrase structure and the analysis of pronominal structures and other long distance dependencies. In each case, we need to understand the relations...

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Main Authors: Helen Goodluck, Nina Kazanina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00584/full