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| Title: | The Acquisition and Processing of Backwards Anaphora |
| Authors: | Kazanina, Nina |
| Advisors: | Phillips, Colin |
| Department/Program: | Linguistics |
| Type: | Dissertation |
| Sponsors: | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) |
| Keywords: | Language, Linguistics (0290)
Psychology, Cognitive (0633)
Psychology, Developmental (0620)
backwards anaphora; long-distance dependencies; parsing; Principle C; binding constraints |
| Issue Date: | 2-Aug-2005 |
| Abstract: | This dissertation investigates long-distance backwards pronominal dependencies (backwards anaphora or cataphora) and constraints on such dependencies from the viewpoint of language development and real-time language processing. Based on the findings from a comprehension experiment with Russian-speaking children and on real-time sentence processing data from English and Russian adults I argue for a position that distinguishes structural and non-structural constraints on backwards anaphora. I show that unlike their non-syntactic counterparts, structural constraints on coreference, in particular Principle C of the Binding Theory (Chomsky 1981), are active at the earliest stage of language development and of real-time processing.
In language acquisition, the results of a truth-value judgment task with 3-6 year old Russian-speaking children reveal a striking developmental asymmetry between Principle C, a cross-linguistically consistent syntactic constraint on coreference, and a Russian-spe... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2927 |
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