Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora Applying the Constraints
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STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
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. [iir Sprachwissenschaft, Akademie der Wissenschaften 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 DanielOsherson, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Yukio Otsu, Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo Edwin Williams, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1987
STUDIES IN THE ACQUISITION OF ANAPHORA Volume II Applying the Constraints
Edited by
BARBARA LUST Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A.
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY
DORDRECHT/BOSTON/LANCASTER/TOKYO
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data (Revised for vol. 2) Studies in the acquisition of anaphora. (Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics) Includes bibliographies and indexes. Contents: v.I. Defining the constraints. 1. Anaphora (Linguistics). 2. Language acquisition. 3. grammar. I. Lust, Barbara, 1941415 8Cr3226 P299.A5S78 1986
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ISBN-13: 978-1-55608-023-4 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-3387-3 DOT: 10.1007/978-94-009-3387-3
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
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B. LUST / Introduction
3 PART A
LEARNABILITY THEORY AND ANAPHORA K. WEXLER / On the Nonconcrete Relation Between Evidence
and Acquired Language
33 PART B
IS THE PARSER CONSTRAINED? R.C BERWICK and K. WEXLER / Parsing Efficiency, Binding,
C-command and Learnability
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H.lt CHIPMAN; and J. GERARD / Some Evidence for. and
J.
Against a "Proximity Strategy" in the Acquisition of Subject Control Sentences COHEN SHERMAN / Evidence Against a Minimal Distance Principal in First Language Acquisition of Anaphora
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PART C DO THE CONSTRAINTS EMERGE UNDER VARIABLE EXPERIENCE? S. GOLDIN-MEADOW / Underlying Redundancy and Its
Reduction in a Language Developed Without a Language Model: Constraints Imposed by Conventional Linguistic Input J. KEGL / Coreference Relations in American Sign Language R. HOFFMEISTER / The Acquisition of Pronominal A
