| ROA: | 951 |
| Title: | A unified explanation for production/comprehension asymmetries |
| Authors: | Petra Hendriks |
| Comment: | To appear in: Anna Gavarró Algueró & M. João Freitas (Eds.), Proceedings of GALA 2007, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. |
| Length: | 10 |
| Abstract: | In the past decades, research on language acquisition has identified several asymmetries between production and comprehension in various languages and in various areas of language. Many of these asymmetries came as a surprise to their investigators, because no asymmetries are expected under the traditional view of the grammar as a direction-insensitive system of rules. This paper argues that viewing the grammar as a direction-sensitive system of constraints on form and meaning, as in Optimality Theory, allows for a unified linguistic explanation of various types of production/comprehension asymmetries in language acquisition. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Language Acquisition,Syntax,Semantics |
| Article: | Version 1
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