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Peer reviewedAvrutin, Sergey; Wexler, Kenneth – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 1992
Presents evidence for a theory that children learning Russian at a certain age know a syntactic principle that governs the distribution of pronouns, but that they do not know a pragmatic or semantic principle that restricts the situations in which noun phrases may be contraindexed. (Contains 48 references.) (JP)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Universals, Language Usage
Peer reviewedWexler, Kenneth; Rice, Mabel; Schutze, Carson T. – Language Acquisition, 1998
Presents new evidence for the view that specific language impairment (SLI) involves a syntactic-feature deficit within non-evident grammar. The data involve morphological case and its interaction with verbal inflection. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Case (Grammar), Grammar, Language Acquisition
Download full textWexler, Kenneth; And Others – 1974
Some aspects of a theory of grammar are presented which derive from a formal theory of language acquisition. One aspect of the theory is a universal constraint on analyzability known as the Freezing Principle, which supplants a variety of constraints proposed in the literature. A second aspect of the theory is the Invariance Principle, a…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Universals
