{"id":265,"date":"2020-12-09T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/?post_type=projects&#038;p=265"},"modified":"2020-12-09T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T18:10:08","slug":"cross-linguistic-study-of-first-language-acquisition-of-adverbial-subordinate-clause-adjunction-and-anaphora-in-right-and-left-branching-languages","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/projects\/cross-linguistic-study-of-first-language-acquisition-of-adverbial-subordinate-clause-adjunction-and-anaphora-in-right-and-left-branching-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Cross-Linguistic Study of First Language Acquisition of Adverbial Subordinate Clause adjunction and anaphora in Right and Left Branching Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<div class=\"first\">\n<h2><strong>Major Contributors<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Barbara Lust, Tatsuko Wakayama, Yu Chin Chien, James Gair, Suzanne Flynn, Kalyani Karunatillake, Vashini Sharma, Kamal de Abrew<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Lab (s) Name (s)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Cornell Language Acquisition Lab<\/p>\n<h2><strong>URL<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>http:\/\/www.clal.cornell.edu<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Coverage (countries)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>USA, Taiwan, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, South Korea<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Languages<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>English, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), Korean, Arabic, Sinhalese, Hindi<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Date<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1977-current<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"second\">\n<h2><strong>GENERAL PROJECT DESCRIPTION<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Comparative experimental studies have been conducted in 7 languages which vary in their Branching Direction (i.e., direction of recursive clausal adjunction) and Head Direction. Sentences with adverbial subordinate clauses in either rightward or leftward location are tested in each language. Various forms of anaphora (lexical pronouns or null) are tested in forward and backward directions in each language. Comparative experimental data reside in the CLAL and are being analyzed for both universal and language-specific patterns.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>PURPOSES OF THE PROJECT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The project tests a parameter setting theory in first language acquisition. It evaluates principles which may guide the child&#8217;s acquisition of knowledge of word and constituent order. It tests potential structural constraints on anaphora and its directionality.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>LEADING QUESTIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This project asks if a parameter of order (directionality), defined in terms of Universal Grammar has effects on early acquisition of languages across the world.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>RATIONALE AND AGENDA<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>PARTICULAR STUDIES<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>CURRENT STATUS OF PROJECT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>PEOPLE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>PAPERS\/BOOKS PUBLISHED<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>PAPERS IN PREP<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Contributors Barbara Lust, Tatsuko Wakayama, Yu Chin Chien, James Gair, Suzanne Flynn, Kalyani Karunatillake, Vashini Sharma, Kamal de Abrew Lab (s) Name (s) Cornell Language Acquisition Lab URL http:\/\/www.clal.cornell.edu Coverage (countries) USA, Taiwan, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, South Korea Languages English, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), Korean, Arabic, Sinhalese, Hindi Date 1977-current GENERAL PROJECT DESCRIPTION Comparative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.5.23","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/265\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}