The Processing and Acquisition of Control Structures by Young Children

Dana McDaniel, University of Southern Maine
Helen Cairns, City University of New York

Copyright Holder: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-3808-6_12 http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-011-3808-6

Abstract

In order to interpret a sentence involving control, the hearer must identify a referent for the phonetically null element PRO. It is, therefore, of interest to investigate how children acquire this ability.