Paradigms and the acquisition of agreement morphology in German

In this thesis, I present arguments for a model of language acquisition with three characteristics. These are (1) Continuity in the abstract principles of Universal Grammar; (2) Lexical Learning, or the setting of syntactic parameters based upon the acquisition of morphology; and (3) Morpholexica...

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Main Author: Thompson, William Karl
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3861