Helen Goodluck
Biographic Data
| ID | 752739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Goodluck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodluck |
| SIGNATURE | GOODLUCK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5158-645X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Object extraction is not subject to Child Relativized Minimality
Greater processing capacity leads to second language acquisition features
Meisel's thought provoking article makes the case that child second language acquisition (as opposed to child first and child bilingual acquisition) can be observed in learners as young as three years, perhaps younger. He suggests that the onset of acquisition as a second rather than first language may be related to neurological changes and to the inaccessibility of mechanisms used for data analysis by first language learners
Child and adult construal of restrictive relative clauses: Knowledge of grammar and differential effects of syntactic context
We report four act-out experiments testing the sensitivity of adults and three- to five-year-old children to the distinction between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses in English. Specifically, we test knowledge of the fact that restrictive relative clauses cannot modify a proper name head, and of the fact that relatives introduced by that (as opposed to a wh -pronoun) are obligatorily restrictive. Both children and adults show know…
Merge and binding in child relative clauses: The case of Irish
This study investigates whether children learning Irish as a first language show a preference for one or other of the two mechanisms for relative clause formation used in the adult language (movement and binding), and what details of the grammar of Irish relative clauses children are sensitive to. Our results suggest that Irish-speaking children have acquired both a movement and a binding mechanism for relativization by age five, and that they ad…
Commentary on Learnability and linguistic performance by Kenneth F. Drozd
In this commentary I will take up the topic of the Crain & Thornton's (C&T) Modularity Matching Model vs. the approach C&T dub the Competing Factors Model, arguing that there is reason to adopt a model that includes elements of both those approaches, as I understand them
The Pronoun Attraction Effect for D(iscourse)-Linked Phrases: Evidence from Speakers of a Null Subject Language
The acquisition of control crosslinguistically: Structural and lexical factors in learning to licence PRO
Rules for interpreting empty category (EC) subjects of complement clauses vary crosslinguistically across structural and lexical dimensions. In adult Greek, a distinction is made between the verbs meaning WANT and TRY, the former but not the latter permitting the EC subject of its subjunctive complement to refer outside the sentence. The EC is pro for WANT and PRO for TRY. In adult Spanish, both the verbs meaning WANT and TRY require the EC subje…
The Nominal Analysis of Children's Interpretations of Adjunct Pro Clauses
The hypothesis that children's errors in interpreting adjunct PRO clauses are due to their use of a nominal structure was tested in two act-out experiments. Four- to six-year-old English-speaking children permitted a by phrase inside an adjunct clause containing an intransitive verb to be interpreted as agentive, and they gave such an interpretation for a construction for which a nominal analysis is not permitted in the adult grammar ( when PRO c…
Buzzsaws and blueprints: Commentary
The review article by Sabbagh & Gelman (S & G) on The emergence of language (EL) mentions several criticisms of strong emergentism, the view that language emerges through an interaction between domain-general learning mechanisms and the environment, without crediting the organism with innate knowledge of domain-specific rules, a view that successful connectionist modelling is taken to support. One criticism of this view and the support for it tha…
Un effet du principe C chez l’enfant francophone
We report a study that tests children’s knowledge of an effect of Principle C of the binding theory: In the adult grammar of English and French, coreference between a main clause object pronoun and a non-pronominal subject of a sentence-final temporal clause is permitted, whereas coreference between a subject pronoun and the subject of a temporal clause is blocked. In an act-out task, both French-speaking adults and children aged 3–7 were found t…
Island effects in parsing and grammar: Evidence from Akan
Les As. demontrent sur la base d'une comparaison entre l'akan et l'anglais que les contraintes d'iles peuvent etre simulees par des principes de traitement, mais que ces contraintes ne peuvent pas etre elles-memes reduites a des principes de traitement. La force de l'ile dans les intuitions d'un locuteur natif ne peut resulter seulement de principes grammaticaux, mais est le produit des principes de grammaire et de traitement agissant de concert …
On the Default Mechanism for Interrogative Binding
The difference between the two mechanisms for wh -question binding (i.e., sucessive cyclic movement and pronominal binding) is characterized, inter alia, by the presence of island constraints (subjacency effects) in movement but not pronominal constructions. Using experimental data from child and adult speakers of Akan (pronominal binding) and Serbo-Croatian (movement and pronominal binding), it is argued that: 1) Previous experiments on English-…
Language Acquisition: A Linguistic Introduction
When grammar wins over sense: Children's judgments of extraposed relatives
Specificity, context and the learnability of grammar: A commentary on Stemmer
Interpreting relatives: Grammatical vs psycholinguistic strategy
Children's knowledge of prepositional phrase structure: An experimental test
The Nominal Analysis of Children's Interpretations of Adjunct Pro Clauses
The hypothesis that children's errors in interpreting adjunct PRO clauses are due to their use of a nominal structure was tested in two act-out experiments. Four- to six-year-old English-speaking children permitted a by phrase inside an adjunct clause containing an intransitive verb to be interpreted as agentive, and they gave such an interpretation for a construction for which a nominal analysis is not permitted in the adult grammar ( when PRO c…
Merge and binding in child relative clauses: The case of Irish
This study investigates whether children learning Irish as a first language show a preference for one or other of the two mechanisms for relative clause formation used in the adult language (movement and binding), and what details of the grammar of Irish relative clauses children are sensitive to. Our results suggest that Irish-speaking children have acquired both a movement and a binding mechanism for relativization by age five, and that they ad…
Object extraction is not subject to Child Relativized Minimality
When grammar wins over sense: Children's judgments of extraposed relatives
Interpreting relatives: Grammatical vs psycholinguistic strategy
Children's knowledge of prepositional phrase structure: An experimental test
Specificity, context and the learnability of grammar: A commentary on Stemmer
When grammar wins over sense: Children's judgments of extraposed relatives
Language Acquisition: A Linguistic Introduction
Island effects in parsing and grammar: Evidence from Akan
Les As. demontrent sur la base d'une comparaison entre l'akan et l'anglais que les contraintes d'iles peuvent etre simulees par des principes de traitement, mais que ces contraintes ne peuvent pas etre elles-memes reduites a des principes de traitement. La force de l'ile dans les intuitions d'un locuteur natif ne peut resulter seulement de principes grammaticaux, mais est le produit des principes de grammaire et de traitement agissant de concert …
On the Default Mechanism for Interrogative Binding
The difference between the two mechanisms for wh -question binding (i.e., sucessive cyclic movement and pronominal binding) is characterized, inter alia, by the presence of island constraints (subjacency effects) in movement but not pronominal constructions. Using experimental data from child and adult speakers of Akan (pronominal binding) and Serbo-Croatian (movement and pronominal binding), it is argued that: 1) Previous experiments on English-…
Buzzsaws and blueprints: Commentary
The review article by Sabbagh & Gelman (S & G) on The emergence of language (EL) mentions several criticisms of strong emergentism, the view that language emerges through an interaction between domain-general learning mechanisms and the environment, without crediting the organism with innate knowledge of domain-specific rules, a view that successful connectionist modelling is taken to support. One criticism of this view and the support for it tha…
Un effet du principe C chez l’enfant francophone
We report a study that tests children’s knowledge of an effect of Principle C of the binding theory: In the adult grammar of English and French, coreference between a main clause object pronoun and a non-pronominal subject of a sentence-final temporal clause is permitted, whereas coreference between a subject pronoun and the subject of a temporal clause is blocked. In an act-out task, both French-speaking adults and children aged 3–7 were found t…
The acquisition of control crosslinguistically: Structural and lexical factors in learning to licence PRO
Rules for interpreting empty category (EC) subjects of complement clauses vary crosslinguistically across structural and lexical dimensions. In adult Greek, a distinction is made between the verbs meaning WANT and TRY, the former but not the latter permitting the EC subject of its subjunctive complement to refer outside the sentence. The EC is pro for WANT and PRO for TRY. In adult Spanish, both the verbs meaning WANT and TRY require the EC subje…
The Nominal Analysis of Children's Interpretations of Adjunct Pro Clauses
The hypothesis that children's errors in interpreting adjunct PRO clauses are due to their use of a nominal structure was tested in two act-out experiments. Four- to six-year-old English-speaking children permitted a by phrase inside an adjunct clause containing an intransitive verb to be interpreted as agentive, and they gave such an interpretation for a construction for which a nominal analysis is not permitted in the adult grammar ( when PRO c…
Commentary on Learnability and linguistic performance by Kenneth F. Drozd
In this commentary I will take up the topic of the Crain & Thornton's (C&T) Modularity Matching Model vs. the approach C&T dub the Competing Factors Model, arguing that there is reason to adopt a model that includes elements of both those approaches, as I understand them
The Pronoun Attraction Effect for D(iscourse)-Linked Phrases: Evidence from Speakers of a Null Subject Language
Merge and binding in child relative clauses: The case of Irish
This study investigates whether children learning Irish as a first language show a preference for one or other of the two mechanisms for relative clause formation used in the adult language (movement and binding), and what details of the grammar of Irish relative clauses children are sensitive to. Our results suggest that Irish-speaking children have acquired both a movement and a binding mechanism for relativization by age five, and that they ad…
Child and adult construal of restrictive relative clauses: Knowledge of grammar and differential effects of syntactic context
We report four act-out experiments testing the sensitivity of adults and three- to five-year-old children to the distinction between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses in English. Specifically, we test knowledge of the fact that restrictive relative clauses cannot modify a proper name head, and of the fact that relatives introduced by that (as opposed to a wh -pronoun) are obligatorily restrictive. Both children and adults show know…
Greater processing capacity leads to second language acquisition features
Meisel's thought provoking article makes the case that child second language acquisition (as opposed to child first and child bilingual acquisition) can be observed in learners as young as three years, perhaps younger. He suggests that the onset of acquisition as a second rather than first language may be related to neurological changes and to the inaccessibility of mechanisms used for data analysis by first language learners
Object extraction is not subject to Child Relativized Minimality
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