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Title:
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The Acquisition of Functional Categories: A case study
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Author:
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Joseph Galasso
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Email:
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Homepage:
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http://www.csun.edu/~galasso
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Degree Awarded:
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University of Essex
, MPhil/PhD in Linguistics
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Degree Date:
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1999
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Language Acquisition
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Subject Language(s):
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English
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Director(s):
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Harald Clahsen
Andrew Radford
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Abstract:
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The case study argues in favor of an initial Pre-Functional stage in the acquisition of English syntax that arises as a result of the protracted 'maturational-scheduling' of the functional category IP. This initial stage comes to be described as a Non-INFLectional stage-1 during which subject-agreement and possessor-agreement go unmarked. Following Radford & Galasso (1998), the data point to an interesting and previously unreported symmetry between the general development of inflective properties: viz., Subject-Verb constructions on the one hand and Possessive-Noun constructions on the other. Both show symmetric-chronological development of inflectional markings for 3Present/Sg/ {s} and Possessive {'s} (respectively).
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