Object extraction is not subject to Child Relativized Minimality

• Published in: Lingua Vol. 120; no. 6; pp. 1516 - 1521
• Main Author: Goodluck, Helen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.06.2010; Elsevier
• Subjects: Child Language; Child language. Acquisition and development; Continuity; D(iscourse)-linking; Language Acquisition; Linguistics; Minimalist Program; Object extraction; Predicate; Production and comprehension processes; Psycholinguistics; Psychology of language; Relative Clauses; Relativized Minimality; Syntax Discourse Relationship; Object extraction; Relativized Minimality; Continuity; Child language; D(iscourse)-linking; Language comprehension; Relative (clause); Syntax; Language acquisition

Friedmann et al. (2009) propose that the grammar of three–five-year-old children imposes a stricter version of Relativized Minimality that the adult grammar does. This allows them to explain several experimental findings, including the difficulty children have in comprehending object relative clause...