Rosalind Thornton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosalind Thornton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosalind |
| FAMILY NAME | Thornton |
| SIGNATURE | THORNTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linguistics, Macquarie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Negation and First Language Acquisition
This chapter investigates children’s acquisition of negation from a cross-linguistic perspective. The chapter reviews topics in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of negation in children’s grammars. Discussion of the syntax of negation in early grammars includes the hierarchical position of negation in children’s early structures, internal versus external negation, and the syntactic category of the negative marker. Topics relevant to 3- to 5-y…
Subject–Aux Inversion in Children with SLI
Cleft sentences and reconstruction in child language
This study examines it -clefts in four- and five-year-old English-speaking children using a truth-value judgment task. The goal was to find out whether children (i) observe principle C in clefts like It was Spot that he brushed and (ii) access bound-variable interpretations in clefts like It was her pig that every girl carried , despite the lack of c-command between relevant elements in the surface representation. Our experimental finding was tha…
Differences in Scope Assignments for Child and Adult Speakers of Mandarin
First Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory of
Sentential negation in early child English
Starting with the seminal work of Klima & Bellugi (1966) and Bellugi (1967), young English-speaking children have been observed to pass through a stage at which their negative utterances differ from those of adults. Children initially use not or no , whereas adults use negative auxiliary verbs ( don't , can't , etc.). To explain the observed mismatches between child and adult language, the present study adopts Zeijlstra's (2004, 2007, 2008a, b) N…
Early child control
Universal Grammar versus language diversity
Why continuity
Language Acquisition is Language Change
Binding principles and ACD constructions in child grammars
Antecedent-contained deletion (ACD) constructions have been the focus of much recent literature in linguistic theory. These constructions have been instrumental in arguments against dispensing with the operation of Quantifier Raising (QR) and a level of Logical Form (LF) (e.g., May 1985; Fiengo & May 1994; Fox 1999, 2000). In fact, it has been argued that in ACD constructions, the binding principles apply at LF (e.g., Fiengo & May 1994). The pres…
Navigating negative quantificational space
This paper reports the findings from an interconnected set of experiments designed to assess children's knowledge of the semantic interactions between negation and quantified NPs. Our main finding is that young children, unlike adults, systematically interpret these elements on the basis of their position in overt syntax. We argue that this observation can be derived from an interplay between fundamental properties of universal grammar and basic …
Navigating negative quantificational space
This paper reports the findings from an interconnected set of experiments designed to assess children's knowledge of the semantic interactions between negation and quantified NPs. Our main finding is that young children, unlike adults, systematically interpret these elements on the basis of their position in overt syntax. We argue that this observation can be derived from an interplay between fundamental properties of universal grammar and basic …
Language Acquisition is Language Change
Why continuity
Binding principles and ACD constructions in child grammars
Antecedent-contained deletion (ACD) constructions have been the focus of much recent literature in linguistic theory. These constructions have been instrumental in arguments against dispensing with the operation of Quantifier Raising (QR) and a level of Logical Form (LF) (e.g., May 1985; Fiengo & May 1994; Fox 1999, 2000). In fact, it has been argued that in ACD constructions, the binding principles apply at LF (e.g., Fiengo & May 1994). The pres…
Sentential negation in early child English
Starting with the seminal work of Klima & Bellugi (1966) and Bellugi (1967), young English-speaking children have been observed to pass through a stage at which their negative utterances differ from those of adults. Children initially use not or no , whereas adults use negative auxiliary verbs ( don't , can't , etc.). To explain the observed mismatches between child and adult language, the present study adopts Zeijlstra's (2004, 2007, 2008a, b) N…
Early child control
Universal Grammar versus language diversity
Navigating negative quantificational space
This paper reports the findings from an interconnected set of experiments designed to assess children's knowledge of the semantic interactions between negation and quantified NPs. Our main finding is that young children, unlike adults, systematically interpret these elements on the basis of their position in overt syntax. We argue that this observation can be derived from an interplay between fundamental properties of universal grammar and basic …
Binding principles and ACD constructions in child grammars
Antecedent-contained deletion (ACD) constructions have been the focus of much recent literature in linguistic theory. These constructions have been instrumental in arguments against dispensing with the operation of Quantifier Raising (QR) and a level of Logical Form (LF) (e.g., May 1985; Fiengo & May 1994; Fox 1999, 2000). In fact, it has been argued that in ACD constructions, the binding principles apply at LF (e.g., Fiengo & May 1994). The pres…
Language Acquisition is Language Change
Why continuity
Universal Grammar versus language diversity
Early child control
Sentential negation in early child English
Starting with the seminal work of Klima & Bellugi (1966) and Bellugi (1967), young English-speaking children have been observed to pass through a stage at which their negative utterances differ from those of adults. Children initially use not or no , whereas adults use negative auxiliary verbs ( don't , can't , etc.). To explain the observed mismatches between child and adult language, the present study adopts Zeijlstra's (2004, 2007, 2008a, b) N…
First Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory of
Cleft sentences and reconstruction in child language
This study examines it -clefts in four- and five-year-old English-speaking children using a truth-value judgment task. The goal was to find out whether children (i) observe principle C in clefts like It was Spot that he brushed and (ii) access bound-variable interpretations in clefts like It was her pig that every girl carried , despite the lack of c-command between relevant elements in the surface representation. Our experimental finding was tha…
Differences in Scope Assignments for Child and Adult Speakers of Mandarin
Subject–Aux Inversion in Children with SLI
Negation and First Language Acquisition
This chapter investigates children’s acquisition of negation from a cross-linguistic perspective. The chapter reviews topics in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of negation in children’s grammars. Discussion of the syntax of negation in early grammars includes the hierarchical position of negation in children’s early structures, internal versus external negation, and the syntactic category of the negative marker. Topics relevant to 3- to 5-y…
Linguistics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Language Development and Disorders (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 works) · Grammar (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works)