{
  "creator": [
    "Parrott, Jeffrey K."
  ],
  "date": [
    "2009-09-30"
  ],
  "description": [
    "As Halle & Marantz (2008: 71) acknowledge, “we have no real idea about how a child assigns features to Vocabulary Items” in Distributed Morphology (DM). Stated generally, how do children acquire language-specific (sometimes variable) mappings between morpho-syntactic features and their morpho-phonological exponents? Following Emonds (1986) in a DM framework, this article advances a testable ‘morphological transparency’ constraint on the acquisition of Vocabulary, and presents supporting results from a pilot observational child-language study in Danish. This constraint explains a significant difference in the mechanisms of Germanic case morphology. By hypothesis, ‘vestigial’ case forms of English and Danish pronouns are contextual allomorphs, with Vocabulary that do not contain any morpho-syntactic case features. Vestigial-case mechanisms constitute a comprehensive analysis of intra-individually variable case-form mismatches in coordinate Determiner Phrases, predicate nominals, and other syntactic structures. Thus, a principle of language acquisition ultimately explains the distribution of case forms both within and across language varieties."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/8711",
    "10.5964/bioling.8711"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/8711/7903"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2009 Jeffrey K. Parrott",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Biolinguistics; Vol. 3 No. 2-3 (2009); 270-304",
    "1450-3417",
    "10.5964/bioling.v3i2-3"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "acquisition",
    "case",
    "Danish",
    "Distributed Morphology",
    "Germanic",
    "P"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Danish Vestigial Case and the Acquisition of Vocabulary in Distributed Morphology"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion",
    "Peer-reviewed Article",
    "theoretical; acquisition"
  ]
}