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QR in Child Grammar: Evidence from Antecedent-Contained Deletion
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Syrett, Kristen; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2009
We show that 4-year-olds assign the correct interpretation to antecedent-contained deletion (ACD) sentences because they have the correct representation of these structures. This representation involves Quantifier Raising (QR) of a Quantificational Noun Phrase (QNP) that must move out of the site of the verb phrase in which it is contained to…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Nouns, Grammar