Cues and economy in the acquisition of verb movement
In special issue: Tromsø Working Papers in Language Acquisition In this paper we will discuss how economy principles interact with cues in the input in bilingual first language acquisition. We will look at the acquisition of verb placement in a child acquiring English and Norwegian simultaneously. B...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/256 2024-06-02T08:15:20+00:00 Cues and economy in the acquisition of verb movement Bentzen, Kristine 2004 308675 bytes application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10037/256 eng eng Universitetet i Tromsø University of Tromsø Nordlyd 32.1(2004), pp 156-175 1503-8599 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/256 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_116 openAccess VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Allmenn språkvitenskap og fonetikk: 011 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Nordiske språk: 018 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Engelsk språk: 020 V2 cue competition language transfer economy of acquisition verb second language acquisition word order Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel 2004 ftunivtroemsoe 2024-05-07T08:40:37Z In special issue: Tromsø Working Papers in Language Acquisition In this paper we will discuss how economy principles interact with cues in the input in bilingual first language acquisition. We will look at the acquisition of verb placement in a child acquiring English and Norwegian simultaneously. Based on data from this child, it will be argued that when faced with ambiguous cues with respect to the verb movement parameter, children do not necessarily adopt the default, less marked setting. Rather, they may opt for a setting which yields an overall consistent grammar, even when this grammar contains operations that are more costly than those used in the target language. We will suggest that economy in acquisition may involve consistency in a grammar in correlation with economy in the more traditional sense within minimalism, where moving an element in general is considered more costly than not moving it (Chomsky 1995). Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Tromsø |
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In special issue: Tromsø Working Papers in Language Acquisition In this paper we will discuss how economy principles interact with cues in the input in bilingual first language acquisition. We will look at the acquisition of verb placement in a child acquiring English and Norwegian simultaneously. Based on data from this child, it will be argued that when faced with ambiguous cues with respect to the verb movement parameter, children do not necessarily adopt the default, less marked setting. Rather, they may opt for a setting which yields an overall consistent grammar, even when this grammar contains operations that are more costly than those used in the target language. We will suggest that economy in acquisition may involve consistency in a grammar in correlation with economy in the more traditional sense within minimalism, where moving an element in general is considered more costly than not moving it (Chomsky 1995). |
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