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Grinstead, John – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Interface Delay is a theory of syntactic development, which attempts to explain an array of constructions that are slow to develop, which are characterized by being sensitive to discourse-pragmatic considerations of the type associated with the natural semantic class of definites. The theory claims that neither syntax itself, nor the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Form Classes (Languages), Pragmatics