Parameter Setting
In May 1985 the University of Massachusetts held the first conference on the parameter setting model of grammar and acquisition. The conference was conceived in the belief that there is a new possibility of tightly connecting grammatical studies and langu
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STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHO LINGUISTICS
Managing Editors:
Thomas Roeper, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Kenneth Wexler, School of Social Sciences, University of California at Irvine Editorial Board:
Robert Berwick, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Manfred Bierwisch, Zentralinst. fUr SprachwissenschaJt, Akademie der WissenschaJten der DDR Merrill Garrett, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Lila Gleitman, School of Education, University of Pennsylvania Mary-Louise Kean, University of California at Irvine Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut at Storrs John Marshall, Neuropsychology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford Daniel Osherson, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Yukio Otsu, Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo Edwin Williams, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1987
PARAMETER SETTING Edited by THOMAS ROEPER and EDWIN WILLIAMS
Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
u.s.A.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Parameter setting. (Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics) Papers from a conference held at the University of Massachusetts in May 1985. Bibliography: p. Includes indcx. 1. Language acquisition-Congresses. 2. Grammar, Comparative and general-Congresses. I. Roeper, Thomas. II. Williams, Edwin. Ill. Series. P1l8.P29 1987 401'.9 86-31665 ISBN-13: 978-90-277-2316-1 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-3727-7 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-3727-7
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T ABLE OF CONTENTS
EDWIN WILLIAMS / NINA HYAMS /
Introduction
Vll
The Theory of Parameters and Syntactic
Development
1
DA VID LEBEA UX /
Comments on Hyams
and M. RITA MANZINI / Parameters and Leamability in Binding Theory
23
KENNETH WEXLER KEN SAFIR /
Comments on Wexler and Manzini
and THOMAS ROEPER / Deductive Parameters and the Growth of Empty Categories
41 77
TAISUKE NISHIGAUCHI HAGIT BORER
91
and KENNETH WEXLER / The Maturation
of Syntax
123
AMY WEINBERG /
Comments on Borer and Wexler
Parameter Setting and the Development of Pronouns and Reflexives
173
LA WRENCE SOLAN / DANIEL L. FINER /
Comments on Solan
MARIANNE PHINNEY /
211
The Pro-Drop Parameter in Second
Language Acquisition LYDIA WHITE/
189
221
A Note on Phinney
239
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
247
INDEX
249
v
INTRODUCTION
In Ma
