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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0153-3320
- eISSN
- 1960-6028
- DOI
- 10.1163/19606028-02501002
- Publisher site
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Abstract
This paper investigates the claim that the binding relation between an operator and a variable is part of the innate language faculty, in accord with a theory of Universal Grammar. We present results of a study of the acquisition of VP ellipsis structures in Mandarin Chinese. Children from 3 years, 5 months to 6 years, 11 months show early knowledge of the ambiguity in sloppy identity structures and of operator-variable binding. Results are compared to those from an earlier parallel study in English (Foley, Núñez del Prado, Barbier, and Lust, 1992a,b,c).
Journal
Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale / Oriental Languages and Linguistics – Brill
Published: Feb 27, 1996