LING 350 Lecture 8: February 4th
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English verbs never move to i. negated sentences need auxiliary (in adult grammar) Negation never moves to a different place in the syntax tree because that is not a rule in english grammar. Children are biased learners: not all hypotheses compatible with data in the input are considered. Those errors that are made (from the perspective of adult language) typically reflect intermediate mental grammars (i-languages) Depending on properties of individual languages (e. g. , morphological parameters), languages develop according to language specific stages. When studying bilingual child acquisition, these facts needs to be considered. Unitary system language hypothesis (ulsh) vs. dual system hypothesis (dsh) Genesee et al. , examined negative sentences over time 15 french-english bilingual children: French has two stages with respect to negation: pas > infinitive. English as three stages with respect to negation. No fraser drink all the tea: no + ip, np no vp. Fraser no want some: np not aux vp.
