- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics
- Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Acquisition of Phonological Inventories
- Phonotactics and Syllable Structure in Infant Speech Perception
- Phonological Processes in Children’s Productions: Convergence with and Divergence from Adult Grammars
- Prosodic Phenomena: Stress, Tone, and Intonation
- Compound Word Formation
- Morpho-phonological Acquisition
- Processing Continuous Speech in Infancy: From Major Prosodic Units to Isolated Word Forms
- Argument Structure
- Voice Alternations (Active, Passive, Middle)
- On the Acquisition of Prepositions and Particles
- A-Movement in Language Development
- The Acquisition of Complements
- Acquisition of Questions
- Root Infinitives in Child Language and the Structure of the Clause
- Mood Alternations
- Null Subjects
- Case and Agreement
- Acquiring Possessives
- Acquisition of Comparatives and Degree Constructions
- Quantification in Child Language
- The Acquisition of Binding and Coreference
- Logical Connectives
- The Expression of Genericity in Child Language
- Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
- Scalar Implicature
- Computational Theories of Learning and Developmental Psycholinguistics
- Statistical Learning, Inductive Bias, and Bayesian Inference in Language Acquisition
- Computational Approaches to Parameter Setting in Generative Linguistics
- Learning with Violable Constraints
- Language Development in Children with Developmental Disorders
- The Genetics of Spoken Language
- Phonological Disorders: Theoretical and Experimental Findings
- References
- Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
Abstract and Keywords
In this chapter the acquisition of pronouns and reflexives is discussed. It reviews several accounts of the so-called Delay of Principle B Effect, the absence of this effect in some languages, and the structural factors that influence its appearance in child language. It also discusses children’s alledged target-like performance on reflexives in several languages with different type of reflexives. The chapter concludes that provided a balanced experimental design is used, the experimental results point at early mastery of Principle A and B, and that children’s difficulties with the interpretation of pronouns and reflexives are to be found at the interfaces between syntax and discourse or semantics, and may be due to limited (syntactic) processing resources.
Keywords: (weak/strong/clitic) pronouns, (SE, SELF) reflexives, long distance reflexives, binding, binding principles, coreference, chain formation, reflexive predicate, ECM constructions, Delay of Principle B Effect
Sergio Baauw is Assistant Professor at the Spanish Language and Culture program of Utrecht University. His research is focussed on first language acquisition from a cross-linguistic (Dutch/Spanish) perspective. He has also worked on agrammatism and bilingualism. Baauw has published papers on the acquisition of pronouns, reflexives, tense and determiners
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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics
- Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Acquisition of Phonological Inventories
- Phonotactics and Syllable Structure in Infant Speech Perception
- Phonological Processes in Children’s Productions: Convergence with and Divergence from Adult Grammars
- Prosodic Phenomena: Stress, Tone, and Intonation
- Compound Word Formation
- Morpho-phonological Acquisition
- Processing Continuous Speech in Infancy: From Major Prosodic Units to Isolated Word Forms
- Argument Structure
- Voice Alternations (Active, Passive, Middle)
- On the Acquisition of Prepositions and Particles
- A-Movement in Language Development
- The Acquisition of Complements
- Acquisition of Questions
- Root Infinitives in Child Language and the Structure of the Clause
- Mood Alternations
- Null Subjects
- Case and Agreement
- Acquiring Possessives
- Acquisition of Comparatives and Degree Constructions
- Quantification in Child Language
- The Acquisition of Binding and Coreference
- Logical Connectives
- The Expression of Genericity in Child Language
- Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
- Scalar Implicature
- Computational Theories of Learning and Developmental Psycholinguistics
- Statistical Learning, Inductive Bias, and Bayesian Inference in Language Acquisition
- Computational Approaches to Parameter Setting in Generative Linguistics
- Learning with Violable Constraints
- Language Development in Children with Developmental Disorders
- The Genetics of Spoken Language
- Phonological Disorders: Theoretical and Experimental Findings
- References
- Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
