Pronominal Reference: Child Language and the Theory of Grammar

Lawrence M. Solan

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1. An Approach to Language Acquisition.- 1.1. Language Acquisition Research and the Innateness Hypothesis.- 1.2. The Role of Experience.- 1.3. Hypothesis Formation and the Evaluation Metric.- 1.4. Implications for Language Acquisition Research.- Notes.- 2. Structural Restrictions on Pronominal Reference.- 2.1. The Domain of This Study.- 2.2. Structural Restrictions on Anaphora: A Brief History.- 2.3. Structural Restrictions on Anaphora: A Revision.- 2.3.1. A Problem with the C-Command Analysis.- 2.3.2. Structural Restrictions in Logical Form.- 2.3.3. Linear Order of Pronoun and Antecedent.- 2.3.4. Some Difficulties with C-Command.- 2.3.5. The Backward Anaphora Restriction (BAR).- 2.4. Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Relevance of the BAR.- 2.5. Summary.- Notes.- 3. The Acquisition of Restrictions on Pronominal Reference.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. A Review of Some Previous Work on Children's Acquisition of Restrictions on Pronominal Reference.- 3.3. The Backward Anaphora Restriction (BAR) and the Language Acquisition Process.- 3.4. Experiment 1: The Acquisition of the Structural Restrictions on Anaphora.- 3.5. Experiment 2: Anaphora in Sentences with Preposed Complements.- 3.6. Experiment 3: Reflexives.- 3.7. Experiment 4: Forward Anaphora.- 3.8. General Discussion.- Notes.- 4. Strategies and Contrastive Stress.- 4.1. Some Pragmatic Factors in Choosing Antecedents.- 4.2. Limitations on the Use of Contextual Information: Processing Principles.- 4.3. The Parallel Function Strategy.- 4.4. The Use of Contrastive Stress.- 4.4.1. Contrastive Stress in General.- 4.4.2. Contrastive Stress and Anaphora.- 4.5. Conclusion.- Notes.- 5. Parallel Function and Contrastive Stress in Child Language.- 5.1. Children's Understanding of Contrastive Stress.- 5.2. Experiment on Contrastively Stressed Pronouns.- 5.3. Experiment on the Meaning of Parallel Function.- Notes.- 6. Some Conclusions.

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