LING 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Infinitive, Nonfinite Verb, Relative Pronoun
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Ss and oo (the ones where the function is parallel) will be acted out correctly but for the wrong reason: The lion that bumps the dog jumps over the pig (ss) The lion bumps the dog and the pig jumps over. The lion bumps the dog that the pig jumps over (oo) So and os likely to be acted out incorrectly. The lion that the dog bumps jumps over the pig (so) The lion bumps the dog and jumps over the pig. The lion bumps the dog that jumps over the pig (os) The idea is that the child is trying to simply what he or she is hearing in the input. In the experiment, they do this by doing a conjoined clause analysis, and this gets them to the right answer but for the wrong reason. Hamburger & crain (1982) pointed out that all these experiments failed to provide a context in which a relative clause is necessary.
