The Syntax-PF Interface in Children’s Negative Sentences

REFERENCES

• Adger, David. 2003. Core syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bellugi, Ursula. 1967. The acquisition of the system of negation in children’s speech. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University dissertation.
   Google Scholar
• Bellugi, Ursula. 1971. Simplification in child grammar. In Renira Huxley & Elisabeth Ingram (eds.), Language acquisition: Models and methods, 95–119. New York: Academic Press.
   Google Scholar
• Berwick, Robert. 1985. The acquisition of syntactic knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bloom, Lois. 1970. Language development: Form and function in emerging grammars. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bobaljik, Jonathan. 1995. Morphosyntax: The syntax of verbal inflection. Cambridge, MA: MIT dissertation.
   Google Scholar
• Bobaljik, Jonathan. 2002. A-chains at the PF-interface: Copies and “covert” movement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20(2). 197–267.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bošković, Želko & Jairo Nunes. 2007. The copy theory of movement: A view from PF. In Norbert Corver and Jario Nunes (eds.), The copy theory of movement, 13–74. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
   Google Scholar
• Bromberg, Hilary & Ken Wexler. 1995. Null subjects in wh-questions. In Carson Schütze, Jennifer Ganger & Kevin Broihier (eds.), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 26 [MITWPL 26], 221–249. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
   Google Scholar
• Brown, Roger. 1973. A first language: The early stages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Cameron-Faulkner, Theo, Elena Lieven & Anna Theakston. 2007. What part of no do children not understand? A usage-based account of multiword negation. Journal of Child Language 34(2). 251–282.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chomsky, Noam. 1965. Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Chomsky, Noam. 1995. The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Chomsky, Noam. 2000. Minimalist inquiries: The framework. In Robert Martin, David Michaels & Juan Uriagereka (eds.), Step by step: Essays in minimalist syntax in honor of Howard Lasnik, 89–155. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Crain, Stephen. 1991. Language acquisition in the absence of experience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14. 597–612.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crain, Stephen & Paul Pietroski. 2001. Nature, nurture and Universal Grammar. Linguistics and Philosophy 24(2). 139–185.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crain, Stephen & Rosalind Thornton. 1998. Investigations in Universal Grammar: A guide to experiments on the acquisition of syntax and semantics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Déprez, Viviane & Amy Pierce. 1993. Negation and functional projections in early grammar. Linguistic Inquiry 24(1). 25–67.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Drozd, Kenneth. 1995. Child English: Pre-sentential negation as metalinguistic exclamatory sentence negation. Journal of Child Language 22(3). 583–610.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Franks, Steven. 1998. Clitics in Slavic. Paper presented at the Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax Workshop, June 5–7, Spencer Creek, Indiana.
   Google Scholar
• Gleitman, Lila. 1981. Maturational determinants of language growth. Cognition 10. 103–114.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Guasti, Maria Teresa & Luigi Rizzi. 2004. Agreement and tense as distinct syntactic positions: Evidence from acquisition. In Guglielmo Cinque (ed.), Functional structure in DP and IP: The cartography of syntactic structures, Vol. 1, 167– 194. New York: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Guasti, Maria Teresa, Rosalind Thornton & Ken Wexler. 1995. Negation in children’s questions: The case of English. In Dawn MacLaughlin & Susan McEwen (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, [BUCLD 19], vol. 1, 228–239. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
   Google Scholar
• Haegeman, Liliane. 1995. The syntax of negation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Haegeman, Liliane. 2000. Adult null subjects in non pro-drop languages. In Marc-Ariel Friedemann & Luigi Rizzi (eds.), The acquisition of syntax, 129–169. London: Longman (Pearson Education Limited).
   Google Scholar
• Harris, Anthony & Kenneth Wexler. 1996. The optional-infinitive stage in child language: Evidence from negation. In Harald Clahsen (ed.), Generative perspectives on language acquisition, 1–42. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
   Google Scholar
• Hiramatsu, Kazuko. 2003. Children’s judgments of negative questions. Language Acquisition 11(2). 99–126.
   Google Scholar
• Hollebrandse, Bart & Thomas Roeper. 1996. The concept of DO-insertion and the theory of INFL in acquisition. In Charlotte Koster & Frank Wijnen (eds.), Proceedings of the Groningen Assembly on Language Acquisition held at the University of Groningen, 7-9 September 1995, 261–271. Groningen, The Netherlands: Centre for Language and Cognition.
   Google Scholar
• Hyams, Nina. 1986. Language acquisition and the theory of parameters. Dordrecht: Reidel.
   Google Scholar
• Klima, Edward & Ursula Bellugi. 1966. Syntactic regularities in the speech of children. In John Lyons & Roger Wales (eds.), Psycholinguistic papers, 183–208. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Koopman, Hilda & Dominic Sportiche. 1988. Subjects. Ms. University of California, Los Angeles.
   Google Scholar
• Lasnik, Howard. 1981. Restricting the theory of transformations. In Norbert Hornstein & David Lightfoot (eds.), Explanation in linguistics, 152–173. London: Longmans.
   Google Scholar
• Lobeck, Anne. 1993. Strong agreement and identification: Evidence from ellipsis in English. Linguistics 31(5). 777–811.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lobeck, Anne. 1995. Ellipsis: Functional heads, licensing and identification. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Miller, Karen. 2013. Variable input: What Sarah reveals about non-agreeing don’t and theories of root infinitives. Language Acquisition 20(4). 305–324.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nunes, Jairo. 2004. Linearization of chains and sidewards movement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Pinker, Steven. 1984. Language learnability and language development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Radford, Andrew. 1996. Towards a structure building model of acquisition. In Harald Clahsen (ed.), Generative perspectives on language acquisition, 43–90. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
   Google Scholar
• Rice, Mabel & Kenneth Wexler. 1996. Toward tense as a clinical marker of Specific Language Impairment in English-speaking children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 39. 1239–1257.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Rice, Mabel & Kenneth Wexler. 2001. Test for early grammatical impairment. Available at http://www2.ku.edu/˜cldp/MabelRice.
   Google Scholar
• Rizzi, Luigi. 1993. Some notes on linguistic theory and language development: The case of root infinitives. Language Acquisition 3(1). 371–393.
   Google Scholar
• Rizzi, Luigi. 1994. Early null subjects and root null subjects. In Teun Hoekstra & Bonnie Schwartz (eds.), Language acquisition studies in generative grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
   Google Scholar
• Rizzi, Luigi. 2000. Remarks on early null subjects. In Marc-Ariel Friedemann & Luigi Rizzi (eds.), The acquisition of syntax, 269–292. London: Longman (Pearson Education).
   Google Scholar
• Roeper, Thomas & Bernard Rohrbacher. 1994. True pro-drop in child English and the principle of economy of projection. Ms. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
   Google Scholar
• Sano, Tetsuya & Nina Hyams. 1994. Agreement, finiteness, and the development of null arguments. In Mercè Gonzàles (ed.), Proceedings of the 24th North East Linguistic Society [NELS 24], 543–548. University of Massachusetts, Amherst: GLSA.
   Google Scholar
• Schütze, Carson. 2010. The status of non-agreeing don’t and theories of root infinitives. Language Acquisition 17(4). 235–271.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schütze, Carson. 2013. Superfluous do and comparison of spellouts. Ms. University of California, Los Angeles.
   Google Scholar
• Schütze, Carson & Kenneth Wexler. 2000. An elicitation study of young English children’s knowledge of tense: Semantic and syntactic properties of Optional Infinitives. In Sarah A. Fish & Thea Keith (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development [BUCLD 24], 669–683. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
   Google Scholar
• Snyder, William. 2005. Child language: The parametric approach. New York: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Song, JaeYung, Megha Sundara & Katherine Demuth. 2009. Phonological constraints on children’s production of English third person singular –s. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 52(3). 623–642.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tesan, Graciela. 2005. What do children have in their heads? Functional categories and parameter setting in child language. College Park, MD: University of Maryland dissertation.
   Google Scholar
• Theakston, Anna, Elena Lieven & Michael Tomasello. 2003. The role of input in the acquisition of third person singular verbs in English. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 46(4). 863–877.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thornton, Rosalind. 2010. Verb pharse ellipsis in children’s answers to questions. Language Learning and Development 6. 1–31.
   Google Scholar
• Thornton, Rosalind & Graciela Tesan. 2007. Categorical acquisition: Parameter setting in Universal Grammar. Biolinguistics 1(1). 49–98.
   Google Scholar
• Thornton, Rosalind & Graciela Tesan. 2013. Sentential negation in early child English. Journal of Linguistics 49(2). 367–411.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Travis, Lisa. 1984. Parameters and the effects of word order variation. Cambridge, MA: MIT dissertation.
   Google Scholar
• Villiers, Jill de & Peter de Villiers. 1985. The acquisition of English. In Dan I. Slobin (ed.), The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition, vol 1: The data, 27–140. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
   Google Scholar
• Wason, Peter. 1965. Contexts of plausible denial. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 4(1). 7–11.
   Google Scholar
• Wexler, Kenneth. 1994. Optional infinitives, head movement, and the economy of derivation in child language. In David Lightfoot & Norbert Hornstein (eds.), Verb movement, 288–315. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Wexler, Kenneth. 1998. Very early parameter setting and the unique checking constraint: A new explanation of the optional infinitive stage. Lingua 106. 23–79.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Xu, Ting & William Snyder. 2011. Children’s 2Aux negative questions: Elicited production versus spontaneous speech. In Mihaela Pirvulescu, María Cristina Cuervo, Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Jeffrey Steele & Nelleke Strik (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America [GALANA 2010], 277–285. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
   Google Scholar
• Zanuttini, Raffaella. 1996. On the relevance of tense for sentential negation. In Adriana Belletti & Luigi Rizzi (eds.), Parameters and functional heads: Essays in comparative syntax, 181–207. New York: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Zanuttini, Raffaella. 2001. Sentential negation. In Mark Baltin & Chris Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory, 511–535. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
   Google Scholar
• Zeijlstra, Hedzer Hugo. 2004. Sentential negation and negative concord. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam dissertation.
   Google Scholar
• Zeijlstra, Hedzer Hugo. 2007. On the syntactic flexibility of formal features. In Theresa Biberauer (ed.), The limits of syntactic variation, 143–174. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
   Google Scholar