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Commentary published In: Epistemological issue with keynote article “The illusion of language acquisition” by William O’Grady
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3] 2013
► pp. 301–307

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Commentary

What’s parsing got to do with it?

 | Macquarie University
Published online: 16 September 2013
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.3.3.05cra
Article outline
  • Fact 1. Sentences with the same word order yield different scope preferences
  • Fact 2. Sentences with the same word order yield different scope preferences
  • Fact 3. Sentences with different word order yield the same scope preference
  • Fact 4. Across languages, children initially adopt the same scope preferences
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