Date of Completion
Spring 5-12-2013
Thesis Advisor(s)
William Snyder
Honors Major
Linguistics
Disciplines
Linguistics | Philosophy of Language
Abstract
There is a debate over whether children exhibit a delay in the development of Principle B, one of three chief binding principles. The present study examines spontaneous speech data from nine children and identifies Principle B errors in third person pronouns. The study uses spectrographic analysis on a sample of utterances to determine the frequency of cliticized pronoun use. The results found that children do not make Principle B errors in spontaneous speech, and that they do not use shortened pronoun forms more often than fully pronounced pronouns.
Recommended Citation
Reid, Kelcie Burns, "Delay of Principle B in Spontaneous Speech" (2013). Honors Scholar Theses. 304.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses/304