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Currently, there is an ongoing debate in the literature about whether or not young children have the competence for leftward movement of constituents out of the VP. This paper focuses on whether children acquiring Dutch as their first language demonstrate early competence for this type of movement.1 Two constructions in which the non-finite verb and its DP complement are no longer adjacent will be examined. The first of these constructions is illustrated in (1).
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Barbier, I. (2000). An Experimental Study of Scrambling and Object Shift in the Acquisition of Dutch. 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_3
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