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Peer reviewedAvrutin, Sergey; Wexler, Kenneth – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 1992
Presents evidence for a theory that children learning Russian at a certain age know a syntactic principle that governs the distribution of pronouns, but that they do not know a pragmatic or semantic principle that restricts the situations in which noun phrases may be contraindexed. (Contains 48 references.) (JP)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Universals, Language Usage
