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Ward, Gregory; And Others – Language, 1991
Argues that "outbound anaphora," contrary to the argument of Postal, is fully grammatical and governed by independently motivated pragmatic principles. The felicity of outbound anaphora is demonstrated to be a function of the accessibility of the discourse entity that is evoked by the word-internal element and to which the anaphor is…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Pragmatics, Semantics
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Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Mylander, Carolyn – Language, 1990
This paper reviews research findings on the structural properties of deaf childrens' gestural communication systems and evaluates those properties in the context of data gained from other approaches to the question of the young child's language-making capacity. (over 100 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Input