Abstract

Research into the acquisition of typologically different languages suggests that the existence of a root infinitive stage (RI stage), where children produce infinitive verbs in the place of finite verbs, is connected with language specific properties that have to do with verbal inflection. There are predictions that stem from this line of research and require close scrutiny: a) pro-drop languages are excluded from the group of RI languages (Wexler 1994), b) languages, where the verb is not exclusively inflected for number, are not expected to have Ris (Hoekstra & Hyams 1998), etc.KeywordsBilingual ChildChild LanguagePast ParticipleModal InterpretationNull SubjectThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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