Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora Defining the Constraints

This book is addressed to a central area' of current linguistics and psycholinguistics: anaphora. It is a collection of independent studies by individuals who are currently working, on probleJ,IlS in this area. The book includes two independent volumes. T

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STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Managing Editors: Professor Tom Roeper, Dept. ofLinguistics,

University of Massachusetts at Amherst Professor Kenneth Wexler, School of Social Sciences,

University of California at Irvine Editorial Board: . Robert Berwick, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,

MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Manfred Bierwisch, Zentralinst. for Sprachwissenschaft,

Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR Merrill Garrett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lila Gleitman, School of Education, University of Pennsylvania Mary-Louise Kean, University of California at Irvine ll.oward Lasnik, University of Connecticut at Storrs

John Marshall, Neuropsychology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford Daniel Osherson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yukio Otsu, Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo Edwin Williams, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

STUDIES IN THE ACQUISITION OF ANAPHORA Volume! Defining the Constraints Edited by BARBARA LUST

Cornel/University, Ithaca, U.S.A.

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Studies in the acquisition of anapbora. (Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics) Bibliograpby: p. Includes index. Contents: v.1. Defining tbe constraints 1. Anaphora (Linguistics) 2. Language Generative grammar. I. Lust, Barbara, 1941-

acq uisitiOD. 3. II. Series.

P299.A5S78 1986 415 86-3226 ISBN-13: 978-90-277-2122-8 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-4548-7 001: I 0.1 007/978-94-009-4548-7

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

vii

PREFACE

3

B. LUST I Introduction

PART A THEORETICAL B\.\SE T. WASOW I Reflections on Anaphora T. REINHART I Center and Periphery

in the Grammar of

Anaphora R. FREIDIN I Fundamental Issues in the Theory of Binding

107 123 151

PART B FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES 1. NULL (BOUND)ANAPHORA

T. ROEPER I How Children Acquire Bound Variables

191

2. PRONOUN (FREE)ANAPHORA B. LUST and T. CLIFFORD / The 3-D Study: Effects of Depth,

Distance and Directionality on Children's Acquisition of Anaphora

203

3. DISTINGUISHING BOUND AND FREE ANAPHORA B. LUST, L. SOLAN, S. FLYNN, C. CROSS, and E. SCHUETZ I

A Comparison of Null and Pronoun Anaphora in First Language Acquisition

245

vi

T ABLE OF CONTENTS 4. CONTROL

J. COHEN SHERMAN and B. LUST / Syntactic and Lexical

Constraints on the Acquisition of Control in Complement