Categorial Complexity of Relativisation and Child Romance Performance
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While nesting of non-centre embedding subject relativisation as in (1a) is fully acceptable, the acceptability of nesting of centre embedding object relativisation as in (1b) deteriorates with the depth of embedding. Here we discuss relativisation in relation to Catalan and Italian first language acquisition. We report on an experiment on the child comprehension of Catalan relatives, replicating an earlier experiment on child Italian relatives (Adani in press) and we present an account of this child performance in terms of a categorial complexity metric (Johnson 1998, Morrill 2000).
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