Variable input and object drop in child language

Ana T. Pérez-Leroux; Mihaela Pirvulescu; Yves Roberge; Danielle Thomas; Lyn Tieu

Variable input and object drop in child language

Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu, Yves Roberge, Danielle Thomas, Lyn Tieu

Western Sydney University

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![CDATA[Young children appear to exhibit an optionality stage for direct objects, which they overcome at different ages in different languages (Jakubowicz et al. 1996, Schmitz et al. 2004, Wexler et al. 2002, Pérez-Leroux, Pirvulescu & Roberge, In press). Such crosslinguistic differences in development should be examined in light of the complexity of the input. One important fact not yet fully considered is that adult grammars allow for null objects in a variety of contexts. This leads to an important question: Given a verb without an object, what can the child unambiguously infer? We argue that the interpretability of object omission is different for children and adults.]]

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Conference of Canadian Linguistic Association, York University, Toronto, May 27 - May 30, 2006
Publisher	Canadian Linguistic Association
Number of pages	15
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	Canadian Linguistic Association. Annual Conference - Duration: 1 Jan 2010 → …

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Conference	Canadian Linguistic Association. Annual Conference
Period	1/01/10 → …

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children
language and languages
linguistics

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