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Productive inventory and case/agreement contingencies: a methodological note on Rispoli (1999)
1Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951543, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543, USA. cschutze@ucla.edu
Abstract:
Rispoli (1999) suggests that previous studies arguing for a contingency between the case of subject pronouns and the presence/absence of verbal agreement in the acquisition of English (e.g. Schütze, 1997) suffer from methodological problems, and presents new data that fail to support earlier findings. I show that Rispoli's methodology unnecessarily biases his study against finding the predicted contingencies: it fails to take account of children's productive lexical inventory of pronoun forms. As a result, syntactic versus morphological sources of error fail to be distinguished. I explain why this distinction is crucial within the AGR/Tense Omission Model, and clarify its predictions.
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