Abstract
Research into the acquisition of typologically different languages suggests that the existence of a root infinitive stage (RI stage), where children produce infinitive verbs in the place of finite verbs, is connected with language specific properties that have to do with verbal inflection. There are predictions that stem from this line of research and require close scrutiny: a) pro-drop languages are excluded from the group of RI languages (Wexler 1994), b) languages, where the verb is not exclusively inflected for number, are not expected to have Ris (Hoekstra & Hyams 1998), etc.
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Ezeizabarrena, M.J. (2002). Root Infinitives in Two Pro-Drop Languages. In: Pérez-Leroux, A.T., Liceras, J.M. (eds) The Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0291-2_2
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