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Direct linkMatsuo, Ayumi – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2007
This article describes how English and Japanese children interpret empty categories in Verb Phrase Ellipsis contexts as in (1):(1) The penguin [sat on his chair] and the robot did [delta], too. To obtain an adultlike interpretation of (1), English children have to do two things. First, they need to find a suitable antecedent for the empty verb…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, Language Patterns, Japanese
Peer reviewedMatsuo, Ayumi; Duffield, Nigel – Language Acquisition, 2001
Reports on experiments investigating children's knowledge of the constraints on ellipsis constructions in English, focusing on subtle contrasts between verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) and VP-anaphora (VPA). Results from parallel experiments employing the same stimuli but with different methodologies show that young children can correctly distinguish…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Language Acquisition, Phrase Structure
