VARIATION IN THE INPUT
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VARIATION IN THE INPUT Studies in the Acquisition of Word Order Edited by MERETE ANDERSSEN University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway KRISTINE BENTZEN University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway MARIT WESTERGAARD University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway 13
Editors Merete Anderssen University of Tromsø Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) 9037 Tromsø Breivika Norway merete.anderssen@uit.no Kristine Bentzen University of Tromsø Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) 9037 Tromsø Breivika Norway kristine.bentzen@uit.no Marit Westergaard University of Tromsø Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) 9037 Tromsø Breivika Norway marit.westergaard@uit.no ISSN 1873-0043 ISBN 978-90-481-9206-9 e-isbn 978-90-481-9207-6 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9207-6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010933509 # Springer ScienceþBusiness Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents The Acquisition of (Word Order) Variation.... 1 Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen, and Marit Westergaard Optional Illusions.... 17 Andrea Gualmini Optional Doubly-Filled COMPs (DFCs) in Wh-Complements in Child and Adult Swiss German... 33 Manuela Schönenberger The Acquisition of Adjectival Ordering in Italian... 65 Anna Cardinaletti and Giuliana Giusti Input Factors in Early Verb Acquisition: Do Word Frequency and Word Order Variability of Verbs Matter?.... 95 Anja Kieburg and Petra Schulz Word Order in the Development of Dative Constructions: A Comparison of Cantonese and English... 129 Chloe C. Gu Using Early ASL Word Order to Shed Light on Word Order Variability in Sign Language... 157 Deborah Chen Pichler Variable Word Order in Child Greek.... 179 Konstantia Kapetangianni Optional Scrambling Is Not Random: Evidence from English-Ukrainian Acquisition.... 207 Roksolana Mykhaylyk and Heejeong Ko v
vi Contents The Acquisition of Apparent Optionality: Word Order in Subject and Object Shift Constructions in Norwegian... 241 Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen, Yulia Rodina, and Marit Westergaard Index... 271
Contributors Merete Anderssen University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, merete.anderssen@uit.no Kristine Bentzen University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, kristine.bentzen@uit.no Anna Cardinaletti Universita` Ca Foscari di Venezia, Venice, Italy, cardin@unive.it Deborah Chen Pichler Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, USA, deborah.chen.pichler@gallaudet.edu Giuliana Giusti Universita` Ca Foscari di Venezia, Venice, Italy, giusti@unive.it Chloe C. Gu University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, cgu@linguist.umass.edu Andrea Gualmini Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, a.gualmini@uu.nl Konstantia Kapetangianni University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, kapetang@umich.edu Anja Kieburg Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, D-60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, kieburg@em.uni-frankfurt.de Heejeong Ko Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, heejeong@alum.mit.edu Roksolana Mykhaylyk Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA, rmykhayl@ic.sunysb.edu Yulia Rodina University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, yulia.rodina@uit.no Manuela Scho nenberger University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, iris.schoenenberger@uni-oldenburg.de vii
viii Contributors Petra Schulz Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, D-60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, P.Schulz@em.uni-frankfurt.de Marit Westergaard University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, marit.westergaard@uit.no