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Dekydtspotter, Laurent; Sprouse, Rex A.; Anderson, Bruce – Language Acquisition, 1997
This study documents the sensitivity of English-French interlanguage to the process-result distinction with respect to the licensing of multiple postnominal genitives, despite a lack of direct positive or negative evidence for this distinction in the input. Documentation argues that the Universal Grammar-governed map between syntactic structures…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, French, Grammar