Challenges for a theory of islands
A broader perspective on Ambridge, Pine, and Lieven
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3025534 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carson T Schutze (0000-0002-5066-314X), Jon Sprouse (0000-0002-8875-3204), Ivano Caponigro |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | e31-e39 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lan.2015.0014 |
| OpenAlex | W1586655661 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 10 |
Subjacency characterizes a set of phenomena whose acquisition must be explained by any proposal for human language learning. We take a broader perspective than previous responses to Ambridge, Pine, and Lieven (2014), arguing that they have not shown that this UG principle is 'redundant' because their proposed alternative does not take into account firmly established constraints on A-bar dependencies. We illustrate a range of challenges for theories hoping to reduce subjacency to independently motivated, primarily nonsyntactic constraints: they must include a way to account for attested crosslinguistic variation in island effects, the cross-construction generality of island effects, and the effects of resumption and of wh -in-situ on island behavior
Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Generality · Linguistics · Perspective (graphical · Range (aeronautics · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Engineering · Language Development and Disorders · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |