Computational complexity and the acquisition of functional categories by French-speaking children with SLI (1).(specific language impairment)

From: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the languagesciences | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract

Previous research conducted with French-speaking normally developing children and children with specific language impairment has shown a striking asymmetry between present and past tense production--the passe compose--in favor of the present. Based on specific assumptions about the nature of finiteness and the projection of the passe compose in French, we have explained this asymmetry in terms of the computational complexity hypothesis (Jakubowicz and Nash 2001). According to this hypothesis, kernel functional categories (i. e. INFL in French) are easier to compute ...

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