Children’s Interpretation of the Discourse-Dependent Reflexives

Abstract

So far we have been concerned with the interpretation of pronouns and errors that children make in this interpretation. We have seen that this interpretation requires a coordination of specific syntactic constraints (e.g. Binding Principles) and constraints at the level of discourse. It has been proposed that children posses all required syntactic knowledge but may have problems with implementing their knowledge of the discourse-related constraints, specifically constraints on bridging.