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In this book, I have relied on acquisition data to evaluate linguistic-theoretic claims. In particular, I have attempted to provide confirmation of recent proposals in the theoretical literature on the basis of crosslinguistic data from French and English child language. By assuming the VP-internal subject hypothesis, the verb raising analysis of inflectional affixation in French as compared to affix lowering in English, and a principled bias in UG toward isomorphism between levels of representation, a cluster of properties in the early grammar is accounted for.
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Pierce, A.E. (1992). Conclusion. In: Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2574-1_9
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