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Reali, Florencia; Christiansen, Morten H. – Cognitive Science, 2005
The poverty of stimulus argument is one of the most controversial arguments in the study of language acquisition. Here we follow previous approaches challenging the assumption of impoverished primary linguistic data, focusing on the specific problem of auxiliary (AUX) fronting in complex polar interrogatives. We develop a series of corpus analyses…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Grammar, Sentence Structure, Stimulus Generalization