The emergence of DP in the partitive structure
This dissertation is a first look at English-speaking children’s acquisition of the syntax of the partitive. It presents four experiments that contrast three types of structures and examines how they interact with adjectival modification: the partitive, the pseudopartitive and complex nouns with pre...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2009
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3380028 |