TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hendriks, Petra
A1  - Siekman, Irene
A1  - Smits, Erik-Jan
A1  - Spenader, Jennifer
T1  - Pronouns in competition : predicting acquisition delays cross-linguistically
T2  - Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language : proceedings of the Conference on Intersentential Pronominal Reference in Child and Adult Language, December 1 - 2, 2006, Berlin / Dagmar Bittner & Natalia Gagarina (ed.)
N2  - It is well known that English children between the age of 4 and 6 display a so-called Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) in that they allow pronouns to refer to a local c-commanding antecedent. Their guessing pattern with pronouns contrasts with their adult-like interpretation of reflexives. The DPBE has been explained as resulting from a lack of pragmatic knowledge or insufficient cognitive resources. However, such extra-grammatical accounts cannot explain why the DPBE only shows up in particular languages and in particular syntactic environments. Moreover, such accounts fail to explain why the DPBE only emerges in comprehension and not in production. This paper hypothesizes that the presence or absence of the DPBE can be explained from the properties of the grammar. Fischer's (2004) optimality-theoretic analysis of binding, explaining cross-linguistic variation, and Hendriks and Spenader's (2005/6) optimality-theoretic account of the acquisition of pronouns and reflexives are combined into a single model. This model yields testable predictions with respect to the presence or absence of the DPBE in particular languages, in particular syntactic environments, and in comprehension and/or production.
KW  - Bindungstheorie <Linguistik>
KW  - Sprachwahrnehmung
KW  - Sprachproduktion
KW  - Spracherwerb
KW  - Referenz <Linguistik>
KW  - Sprachverstehen
KW  - Genus verbi
KW  - Anapher <Syntax>
KW  - Referenzidentität
KW  - Optimalitätstheorie
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Niederländisch
KW  - Italienisch
Y1  - 2007
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31013
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310135
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/185.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 48
SP  - 75
EP  - 101
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -