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PDF pending restorationPowers, Susan M. – 1995
An analysis of language acquisition in English and Dutch focuses on a theory of phrase structure. It is argued that the previously posited phrase structure operations of projection and adjunction can be dispensed with in favor of the single operation of "merge." One version of merge is shown to account for a range of data from child English and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Mapping, Dutch, English
