Crosslinguistic Evidence for Functional Projections in Early Child Grammar

• Published in: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION STUDIES IN GENERATIVE GRAMMAR, Hoekstra, Teun, & Schwartz, Bonnie D. [Eds], Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994, pp 57-84
• Main Authors: Deprez, Viviane, Pierce, Amy
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: 01.01.1901

The hypothesis that functional projections are available from the beginning of language acquisition is confirmed by cross-linguistic evidence cited from previous studies of early negative & subject positions in English, French, & German & of verb-to-COMP movement in these languages &...