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VARIATIONINTHEINPUT STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS VOLUME39 ManagingEditors LynFrazier,Dept.ofLinguistics,UniversityofMassachusettsatAmherst ThomasRoeper,Dept.ofLinguistics,UniversityofMassachusettsatAmherst KennethWexler,Dept.ofBrainandCognitiveScience,MIT,Cambridge,Mass. EditorialBoard RobertBerwick,ArtificialIntelligenceLaboratory,MIT,Cambridge,Mass. MatthewCrocker,SaarlandUniversity,Germany JanetDeanFodor,CityUniversityofNewYork,NewYork AngelaFriederici,MaxPlanckInstituteofHumanCognitiveandBrainSciences,Germany MerrillGarrett,UniversityofArizona,Tucson LilaGleitman,SchoolofEducation,UniversityofPennsylvania ChrisKennedy,NorthwesternUniversity,Illinois ManfredKrifka,HumboldtUniversity,Berlin,Germany HowardLasnik,UniversityofConnecticutatStorrs YukioOtsu,KeioUniversity,Tokyo AndrewRadford,UniversityofEssex,U.K. Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6555 VARIATION IN THE INPUT Studies in the Acquisition of Word Order Editedby MERETEANDERSSEN UniversityofTromsø,Tromsø,Norway KRISTINEBENTZEN UniversityofTromsø,Tromsø,Norway MARITWESTERGAARD UniversityofTromsø,Tromsø,Norway 1 3 Editors MereteAnderssen KristineBentzen UniversityofTromsø UniversityofTromsø CenterforAdvancedStudyinTheoretical CenterforAdvancedStudyinTheoretical Linguistics(CASTL) Linguistics(CASTL) 9037Tromsø 9037Tromsø Breivika Breivika Norway Norway [email protected] [email protected] MaritWestergaard UniversityofTromsø CenterforAdvancedStudyinTheoretical Linguistics(CASTL) 9037Tromsø Breivika Norway [email protected] ISSN1873-0043 ISBN978-90-481-9206-9 e-ISBN978-90-481-9207-6 DOI10.1007/978-90-481-9207-6 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2010933509 #SpringerScienceþBusinessMediaB.V.2010 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeof beingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Contents TheAcquisitionof(WordOrder)Variation........................ 1 MereteAnderssen,KristineBentzen,andMaritWestergaard OptionalIllusions............................................ 17 AndreaGualmini ‘Optional’Doubly-FilledCOMPs(DFCs)inWh-Complements inChildandAdultSwissGerman ............................... 33 ManuelaSchönenberger TheAcquisitionofAdjectivalOrderinginItalian ................... 65 AnnaCardinalettiandGiulianaGiusti InputFactorsinEarlyVerbAcquisition:DoWordFrequency andWordOrderVariabilityofVerbsMatter?...................... 95 AnjaKieburgandPetraSchulz WordOrderintheDevelopmentofDativeConstructions: AComparisonofCantoneseandEnglish.......................... 129 ChloeC.Gu UsingEarlyASLWordOrdertoShedLightonWordOrder VariabilityinSignLanguage................................... 157 DeborahChenPichler VariableWordOrderinChildGreek............................. 179 KonstantiaKapetangianni OptionalScramblingIsNotRandom:EvidencefromEnglish-Ukrainian Acquisition................................................. 207 RoksolanaMykhaylykandHeejeongKo v vi Contents TheAcquisitionofApparentOptionality:WordOrderinSubject andObjectShiftConstructionsinNorwegian ...................... 241 MereteAnderssen,KristineBentzen,YuliaRodina,andMaritWestergaard Index..................................................... 271 Contributors MereteAnderssen UniversityofTromsø,Tromsø,Norway, [email protected] KristineBentzen UniversityofTromsø,Tromsø,Norway, [email protected] AnnaCardinaletti Universita` Ca’FoscaridiVenezia,Venice,Italy, [email protected] DeborahChenPichler GallaudetUniversity,Washington,DC,USA, [email protected] GiulianaGiusti Universita` Ca’FoscaridiVenezia,Venice,Italy,[email protected] ChloeC.Gu UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst,Amherst,MA,USA, [email protected] AndreaGualmini UtrechtUniversity,Utrecht,TheNetherlands, [email protected] KonstantiaKapetangianni UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor,MI,USA, [email protected] AnjaKieburg JohannWolfgangGoethe-UniversityFrankfurt,D-60323 FrankfurtamMain,Germany,[email protected] HeejeongKo SeoulNationalUniversity,Seoul,SouthKorea, [email protected] RoksolanaMykhaylyk StonyBrookUniversity,StonyBrook,NY,USA, [email protected] YuliaRodina UniversityofTromsø,Tromsø,Norway,[email protected] ManuelaScho¨nenberger UniversityofOldenburg,Oldenburg,Germany, [email protected] vii viii Contributors PetraSchulz JohannWolfgangGoethe-UniversityFrankfurt,D-60323 FrankfurtamMain,Germany,[email protected] MaritWestergaard UniversityofTromsø,Tromsø,Norway, [email protected] The Acquisition of (Word Order) Variation MereteAnderssen,KristineBentzen,andMaritWestergaard 1 Introduction Thisbookcontainschaptersthatinvestigatechildren’sacquisitionofdifferent typesofvariationintheprimarylinguisticdata(PLD)thattheyareexposedto. Natural languages often display word order variation that may at first sight seem like instances ofoptionality. Anexample ofthis isthe word orderalter- nation in particle verb constructions in Norwegian, where the particle may precedeorfollowthedirectobjectDP,illustratedin(1a,b): (1) a. Hankastetut hunden. he threw out dog-the ‘Hethrew outthedog.’ b. Hankastethundenut. he threw dog-theout ‘Hethrewthedogout.’ Language-internaloptionalityhasrepresentedandcontinuestorepresenta challengeforanylinguistictheorythatisbasedoneconomyprinciples,since generally one of the options should be more economical than the other and thusconstitutetheonlygrammaticalone.Whatdoesitmeanforoneandthe samespeakertofindbothwordordersin(1)grammatical?Onepossibilityis that the speaker is entertaining two different grammars (or parameter set- tings)simultaneously.Thishypothesisissupportedbythefactthatonly(1a)is possible in Swedish, while Danish only uses (1b). So does a speaker of Norwegian who alternates between (1a) and (1b) access two parallel gram- marswithrespecttoparticleshift,onecorrespondingtotheSwedishpattern M.Anderssen(*) UniversityofTromsø,Tromsø,Norway e-mail:[email protected] M.Anderssenetal.(eds.),VariationintheInput,StudiesinTheoretical 1 Psycholinguistics39,DOI10.1007/978-90-481-9207-6_1, (cid:1)SpringerScienceþBusinessMediaB.V.2010
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