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In:Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons
Edited by Harald Clahsen
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 14] 1996
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 18 July 1996
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Tables and Figuresvii
Abbreviationsxi
Contributorsxiii
Introductionxv
The Optional-Infinitive Stage in Child English: Evidence from Negation1
Towards a Structure-Building Model of Acquisition43
The Underspecification of Functional Categories in Early Grammar91
Lexical Learning in Early Syntactic Development129
Strong Continuity, Parameter Setting and the Trigger Hierarchy: On the Acquisition of the DP in Bernese Swiss German and High German161
Subject-Verb and Object-Verb Agreement in Early Basque201
Acquisition of Italian Interrogatives241
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Root Infinitives, Clitics and Truncated Structures271
On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French309
Clitics in L2 French335
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The Initial Hypothesis of Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective on Language Acquisition and Attrition369
The Role of Merger Theory and Formal Features in Acquisition415
How, Hang on a Minute: Some reflections on emerging orthodoxies451
Index of Names487
Index of Subjects495
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