The acquisition of the passive (cont.)

16 Abril 2021, 14:00 • Ana Lúcia da Silva Dias Gonçalves Santos

Other approaches and other factors that may play a role in the acquisition of the passive: syntactic complexity explanations (Hyams & Snyder, 2015) vs. processing explanations (incremental processing and the first NP as agent hypothesis, Huang et al., 2013). The relevance of considering incremental processing when considering children's results in comprehension tasks, according to Omaki & Lidz (2015).

Exercise allowing to introduce the main topic of next class: control structures.