William Snyder
List of John Benjamins publications in which William Snyder is involved.
Yearbook
ISSN 1568-1467 | E‑ISSN 1569‑965X
2018 French experiencer verbs and the Universal Freezing Hypothesis On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance, Gavarró, Anna (ed.), pp. 7–30 | Chapter
The Universal Freezing Hypothesis (UFH) of Snyder and Hyams (2015) predicts that the developmental time course of English be-passives follows from younger children’s inability to make exceptions to the Freezing Principle, required for smuggling derivations, where mature speakers can. Recent… read more
2015 Minimality effects in children’s passives Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti, Di Domenico, Elisa, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini (eds.), pp. 343–368 | Article
Many studies find true verbal passives in English acquired only after age four, but some find three-year-olds fully adultlike. We explain this discrepancy using Relativized Minimality (RM, Rizzi 2004). Collins (2005a) argues the passive involves movement of the logical object across the logical… read more
2013 Children’s Grammatical Conservatism: New evidence Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 291–308 | Article
A growing number of studies suggest that children are “grammatically conservative”: At least in their spontaneous speech, children do not begin using a new syntactic structure productively until they have both determined that the structure is permitted in the adult language, and identified the… read more
2005 Acquisition of phonological empty categories: A case study of early child Dutch UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 213–222 | Article
2005 Language learnability and the forms of recursion UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 155–169 | Article