Title

How Children's Relatives Solve a Problem for Minimalism

Authors

Dana McDaniel PhD, University of Southern MaineFollow
Cecile McKeeFollow
Judy Bernstein

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-1998

Publication Title

Language

Abstract

Children's production & comprehension of preposition stranding vs pied-piping (the robber who Dorothy talked to/to whom Dorothy talked) in relative clauses are explored. A discrepancy was found in all subject groups between production & judgments of the genitive pied-piping construction. This finding is accounted for with Richard S. Kayne's (1994) analysis of relative clauses.

Comments

http://www.linguisticsociety.org/lsa-publications/language

Recommended Citation

McDaniel, Dana, et al. "How Children's Relatives Solve a Problem for Minimalism." Language, vol. 74, no. 2, 1998, pp. 308–334.