Reference assignment: Using language breakdown to choose between theoretical approaches

Ruigendijk, Esther; Vasić, Nada; Avrutin, Sergey

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2005.06.005

Cited by 37 publications

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“…found a PIP in English-speaking agrammatic patients in sentences such as (1a), identical to children acquiring language. Vasic (2006) found a similar result in Dutch patients (see Ruigendijk et al 2006 for an overview of several studies). Several researchers have claimed that agrammatic patients do not lose linguistic knowledge, but have problems with the applications of this knowledge, which leads them to show variability in their performance on syntactic operations (Avrutin et al 1999;Kolk 1987).…”

Section: The Pronoun Interpretation Problem In Agrammatic Patientssupporting

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The Interpretation of Pronouns across Spanish-Speaking Populations

Baauw

2018

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Abstract:In this paper, we will present data from both Spanish acquisition and aphasia on the Pronoun Interpretation Problem (PIP), according to which children allow pronouns to be identified with local c-commanding antecedents. Although it has recently been claimed that the PIP is, to a great extent, an experimental artifact, there are good reasons to believe that there is something "real" in the effect. As with many phenomena from acquisition, researchers have tried to explain this development in terms of "learning", or more concretely, in terms of "parameter setting". Children either must set the right local domain for the application of Principle B or they must set a +/− Principle B parameter. However, considering the PIP as an acquisition problem is problematic since it is difficult to see how children can converge on the target grammar without negative evidence. In this paper, we will defend an alternative approach, according to which the PIP is portrayed as the result of interplay between properties of predicates and different kinds of pronouns on the one hand, and language processing factors on the other.

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The Interpretation of Pronouns across Spanish-Speaking Populations

Baauw

2018

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“…There are various types of variable binding, but not all of them are impaired. Binding for establishing reference, for example (as in ''The boy pinched himself''), is not implicated under this account (see Grodzinsky, Wexler, Chien, Marakovitz, &Ruigendijk, Vasic´, &Avrutin, 2006 for unimpaired interpretation of reflexives). However, variable binding that is used for transferring thematic roles, either via a trace and a chain of movement, or via pronoun binding, is impaired.…”

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Traceless relatives: Agrammatic comprehension of relative clauses with resumptive pronouns

Friedmann¹

2008

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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“…3 In a more recent study, Ruigendijk, Vasic´, and Avrutin (2006) used a sentence comprehension task to examine the interpretation of pronouns and reflexives in simple transitive sentences and in ECM constructions. Ruigendijk et al (2006) tested seven Dutch-speaking aphasic individuals and found no asymmetry between the interpretation of pronouns and reflexives in simple transitive sentences. Their agrammatic speakers achieved high performance on reflexives (8/105 incorrect responses) but also on pronouns (8/104 incorrect responses), although they performed worse on these sentences compared to the non-brain-damaged controls.…”

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confidence: 99%