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How Pragmatics and Syntax Make Principle B Acquirable
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Verbuk, Anna; Roeper, Thomas – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2010
We argue that the debate over the delay of Principle B effects needs to include an additional class of contexts: Evans-style or Exceptional Coreference contexts (ECCs) (e.g., "It's not true that no one voted for John. John[subscript 1] voted for him[subscript 1]"). Our experiment compares acquisition of regular Principle B contexts (B-contexts)…
Descriptors: Syntax, Prediction, Pragmatics, Linguistic Theory
The Acquisition Path for Tense-Aspect: Remote Past and Habitual in Child African American English
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Green, Lisa; Roeper, Thomas – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2007
This article considers the comprehension of tense-aspect markers remote past BIN and habitual be by 3- to 5-year-old developing African American English (AAE)-speaking children and their Southwest Louisiana Vernacular English (SwLVE)-speaking peers. Overall both groups of children associated BIN with the distant past; however, the AAE-speaking…
Descriptors: North American English, Syntax, Semantics, Indigenous Knowledge