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Binding Principles Acquisition

Binding Principles Acquisition is a theoretical construct within syntactic development that delineates the cognitive process through which children learn to apply syntactic binding principles—such as Principle A, B, and C of Chomsky’s Binding Theory—to establish referential dependencies between pronouns, anaphors, and their antecedents in accordance with hierarchical structural constraints rather than linear order.

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Children's Knowledge of Locality Conditions in Binding as Evidence for the Modularity of Syntax and Pragmatics

Yu-Chin Chien, Kenneth Wexler · Language Acquisition · 1990 · 599 citations

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<b>Explaining language universals</b> . Edited by John A. Hawkins Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. xiii, 398. Cloth $49.95.

William Croft · Language · 1991 · 304 citations

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Binding Principles in the Grammars of Young Children

Dana McDaniel, Helen Smith Cairns, Jennifer Ryan Hsu · Language Acquisition · 1990 · 112 citations

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Development of Principle B in Russian: Coindexation at LF and Coreference

Sergey Avrutin, Kenneth Wexler · Language Acquisition · 1992 · 107 citations

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The acquisition of null and overt pronominals in Japanese by English speakers

Kazue Kanno · Second language Research · 1997 · 103 citations

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Authors

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  1. KW
    Kenneth Wexler

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    3 publications · 726 citations

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  2. YC
    Yu-Chin Chien

    California State University, San Bernardino, United States

    2 publications · 619 citations

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  3. AP
    Alexandra Perovic

    University College London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 51 citations

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  4. TD
    Tracy D. Terrell

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    2 publications · 112 citations

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  5. BA
    Ben Ambridge

    University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 87 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    90 citations

  2. Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    55 citations

  3. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    95 citations

  4. California State University, San Bernardino

    San Bernardino, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    20 citations

  5. California State University System

    Long Beach, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    20 citations

  6. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  7. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

  8. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    138 citations

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  1. Language

    6 publications · 534 citations

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  2. Second language Research

    4 publications · 208 citations

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  3. Language Acquisition

    4 publications · 865 citations

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  4. Modern Language Journal

    MLJ · 2 publications · 112 citations

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  5. Linguistic Inquiry

    1 publications · 83 citations

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