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The Acquisition of Clause-Internal Rules

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The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization

Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics ((SITP,volume 26))

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Abstract

Rather than focusing on different approaches to language acquisition, this collection of papers investigates two specific linguistic phenomena from an acquisition point of view. Observations on the acquisition of scrambling or pronominal clitics can be found in the literature, but up until the recent past they were sparse and often buried in other issues. This volume fills a long existing gap in providing a collection of articles that target acquisition while giving a more complete view of the overarching syntactic issues involved. It also provides an overview of L1 and L2 acquisition data from a number of different languages as well as from different theoretical points of view with these two clause-internal processes at the center.

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    Susan M. Powers

  2. University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Cornelia Hamann

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Powers, S.M., Hamann, C. (2000). The Acquisition of Clause-Internal Rules. In: Powers, S.M., Hamann, C. (eds) The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3232-1_1

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