| Автор | Chien, Yu-Chin |
| Автор | Wexler, Kenneth |
| Дата выпуска | 1990 |
| dc.description | We report three experiments concerning English-speaking children's knowledge of locality conditions in the binding of reflexives and pronouns (Principles A and B). The children tested were between the ages of 2;6 and 6;6. By age 6, children know that a reflexive must be locally bound. At the same age, however, they appear to not know that a pronoun may not be locally bound. We suggest that children are missing a pragmatic principle, not the syntactic Principle B. This hypothesis predicts that children will not accept a local antecedent for a pronoun that is a bound variable. Experiment 4 confirms this prediction. We conclude that children know the grammatical principles of binding but do not know a relevant pragmatic principle. We suggest that such dissociation in children might be a useful tool in the study of linguistic theory. |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. |
| Копирайт | Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC |
| Название | Children's Knowledge of Locality Conditions in Binding as Evidence for the Modularity of Syntax and Pragmatics |
| Тип | research-article |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15327817la0103_2 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1532-7817 |
| Print ISSN | 1048-9223 |
| Журнал | Language Acquisition |
| Том | 1 |
| Первая страница | 225 |
| Последняя страница | 295 |
| Выпуск | 3 |
