Morphosyntactic development in Italian and its relevance to parameter-setting models: comments on the paper by Pizzuto & Caselli
- 1 October 1992
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Child Language
- Vol. 19 (3) , 695-709
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900011636
Abstract
Pizzuto & Caselli (1992) claim that data from the morphosyntactic development of Italian-speaking children are inconsistent with nativist, parameter-setting models of language development. In the present Note it is argued that much of the data which Pizzuto & Caselli adduce is irrelevant to the specific hypotheses they are evaluating and that those data which are relevant fully support parameter-setting and linguistictheoretic models, contrary to their claims.Keywords
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