Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora: Applying the Constraints

A Learn Ability Theory and Anaphora.- On the Nonconcrete Relation between Evidence and Acquired Language.- B Is the parser constrained?.- Parsing Efficiency, Binding, C-command and Learnability.- Some Evidence for and Against a "Proximity Strategy" in the Acquisition of Subject Control Sentences.- Evidence against a Minimal Distance Principal in First Language Acquisition of Anaphora.- C Do the Constraints Emerge under Variable Experience?.- Underlying Redundancy and Its Reduction in a Language Developed Without a Language Model: Constraints Imposed by Conventional Linguistic Input.- Coreference Relations in American Sign Language.- The Acquisition of Pronominal Anaphora in American Sign Language by Deaf Children.- Principles of Pronoun Anaphora in the Acquisition of Oral Language by the Hearing-Impaired.- D Do Constraints Emerge in Acquisition of a Second Language?.- Second Language Acquisition of Pronoun Anaphora: Resetting the Parameter.- E Evidencing Grammatical Competence: Methodological Issues.- Children's Interpretation of Pronouns and Null NPs: An Alternative View.- What Children Know: Methods for the Study of First Language Acquisition.- List of Contributors.- Table of Contents for Volume I.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.