Controversies about CP: a comparison of language acquisition and language impairments in Broca's aphasia
1Seminar fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany. penke@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de
Abstract:
In both language acquisition research and the study of language impairments in Broca's aphasia there is an ongoing debate whether or not phrase-structure representations contain the Complementizer Phrase (CP) layer. To shed some light on this debate, I will provide data on German child language and on German agrammatic Broca's aphasia. Analyses of subordinate clauses, wh-questions, and verb placement indicate that early child grammars do not generate the CP layer yet, whereas the ability to project the CP layer is retained in agrammatism.
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