Nina Hyams
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nina Hyams is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0925-0123
Yearbook
Annual Review of Language Acquisition
Edited by Clara Levelt, Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen
ISSN 1568-1467 | E‑ISSN 1569‑965X
2025 Children’s sluices: Intervention and evasion Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell, Arche, María J., Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer (eds.), pp. 170–198 | Chapter
In this paper we discuss English- and Mandarin-speaking children’s development of sluicing — a form of ellipsis. Our experimental results show that 3–6-year old children understand this kind of ellipsis. We also find significantly better performance with subject sluices than with object sluices… read more
2019 On the learnability of implicit arguments Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 185–202 | Chapter
It has been argued that the experiencer argument of seem is always syntactically projected, and should thus induce an intervention effect even when not overtly produced. The results of our experimental study provide evidence for this claim – English-speaking children perform poorly on raising with… read more
2018 Comments on the acquisition of complementation in Portuguese Complement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition, Santos, Ana Lúcia and Anabela Gonçalves (eds.), pp. 395–414 | Chapter
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
2006 Looking for the universal core of the RI stage The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vincent and Linda Escobar (eds.), pp. 159–182 | Article
As it is well known, child Italian does not show a typical Root Infinitive (RI) stage (Guasti 1994), in contrast to German, Dutch, etc. Salustri and Hyams (2003) provided evidence from 3 monolingual Italian children and 1 bilingual German-Italian child that there exists an analogue of the RI stage… read more
1999 Underspecification and Modularity in Early Syntax: A formalist perspective on language acquisition Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers, Darnell, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 387–416 | Article
1996 The Underspecification of Functional Categories in Early Grammar Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons, Clahsen, Harald (ed.), pp. 91–128 | Article
1994 V2, Null Arguments and COMP Projections Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar, Hoekstra, Teun and Bonnie D. Schwartz (eds.), pp. 21–56 | Article
1991 Seven Not-So-Trivial Trivia of Language Acquistion: Comments on Wolfgang Klein Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language, Eubank, Lynn (ed.), pp. 71–88 | Article
1991 Evidence, Analogy and Passive Knowledge: Comments on Lakshmanan Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language, Eubank, Lynn (ed.), pp. 411–418 | Article