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>   Dear All,
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> Some time ago I asked for new references on passive acquisition. I found
out
> many people are working on this topic, and many have been so very kind to
send
> me more than just new references on passive acquisition. I am sharing with
you this rich list compiled from all the info I have received . Thank you
all out there.
> Dorit Ravid
> doritr at ccsg.tau.ac.il
> dorit.ravid at univie.ac.at
>
> Passive references
>
>  Allen, E.M. and M.B. Crago: Early passive acquisition in
> Inuktitut; Journal of Child Language, 1996, 23, 129-155
>
> Brooks, P. & Tomasello, M. (1999).  Young children learn to produce
> passives with nonce verbs.  Developmental Psychology, 35, 29-44.
>
> Allen, S.E.M.  (1996).  Aspects of Argument Structure in Inuktitut.
> Amsterdam: John Benjamins
>
> Allen, S.E.M., & Crago, M.B.  (1993).  The acquisition of passives and
> unaccusatives in Inuktitut.  McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 9,
1-29.
> Allen, S.E.M., & Crago, M.B.  (1996).  Early passive acquisition in
Inuktitut.
>  Journal of Child Language, 23, 129-155.
> Bates, E., Harris, C., Marchan, V., Wulfect , B. & Kritchevsky , M.
Production
> of complex syntax in normal ageing and Alzheimer=92s disease. Language and
> Cognitive Processes, 1995, 10 (5), 487-539.
>
> Bates, Elisabeth. Language and context: the acquisition of pragmatics.
London:
> Academic Press, 1976.
>
> Benasich, April A. & Tallal, Paula. Auditory temporal processing
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>
> Benjamins.
>
> Berndt, Rita Sloan, Mitchum, Charlotte C. & Haendiges, Anne N.
Comprehension
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>
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>
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>
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>
> Brooks, Patricia J. & TOMASELLO, Michael. Young children learn to produce
> passives with nonce verbs. Developmental Psychology, v. 35(1), 1999,
29-44.
>
> Chalmers, D. J. Syntactic Transformations on Distributed Representations.
> Connection Science, v. 2, n. 1 & 2, 1990.
>
> Clahsen, Harald. Lexical entries and rules of language: a
multidisciplinary
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>
> Clark, E.V. & Carpenter 1989, in Language  (on the notion of source)
>
> Clark, Herbert H. & Begun, Jeffrey S. The use of syntax in understanding
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>
> Cunha, Maria A. F. da. Motiva??es discursivas para o uso da passiva.
> D.E.L.T.A., VOL. 10, n=B0 1, 1994, 21-27.
>
> Cunha, Maria A. F. da. Transitividade e passiva: um encontro
> sem?ntico-gramatical. Anais do IX Encontro Nacional de Ling??stica. Rio de
> Janeiro: PUC, 1984.
>
> DeMuth, K.  (1990).  Subject, topic, and Sesotho passive.  Journal of
Child
> Language, 17, 67-84.
>
> Demuth, Katherine. Maturation and the acquisition of the Sesotho passive.
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>
> Demuth, Katherine. Subject, topic and Sesotho passive. Journal of Child
> Language, n. 17, 1990, p. 67-84.
>
> Druks, Judit & Marshall, John C. When passives are easier than actives:
two
> case studies of aphasic comprehension. Cognition, 55, 1995, p. 311-331.
>
> Duarte, Yara. As passivas do Portugu?s e do Ingl?s: uma an?lise funcional.
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>
> Elsen, Hilke 1999. Ansaetze zu einer funktionalistisch-kognitiven
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>
> Ferreira, Fernanda. Choice of passive voice is affected by verb type and
> animacy. Journal of memory and language, 33, 1994, p. 715-736.
>
> Figueira, Rosa Atti?. On the development of the expression of causativity:
a
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>
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>
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> 1968.
>
>  Fox, D., Grodzinsky, Y., & Crain, S.  (1995).  An experimental study of
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>
> Fox, Danny & Grodzinsky, Y. Children=92s passive: a view from the
by-phrase.
> Linguistic Inquiry, v. 29, n. 2, 1998, p. 311-332.
>
> Giv?n, Talmy. Syntax: a functional-typological introduction - vol. II.
> Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990.
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>
> Gordon, P. & Chafetz, J. (1990). Verb-based versus class-based accounts of
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> 227-254.
>
> Gough, Philip B. Grammatical transformations and speed of understanding.
> Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior, 4, 107-111, 1965.
>
> Hayhurst, Hazel. Some errors of young children in producing passive
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>
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>
> Horgan, Dianne. The development of the full passive. Journal of child
> language, 5, 65-80, 1978.
>
> Inuktitut.  In E. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual
Child
>
> Israel, Michael, Christopher Johnson & Patricia Brooks. "From States to
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> publication.
>
> Jackendoff, Ray S. Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar.
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> The MIT Press, 1972.
>
> Jaeggli, Osvaldo A. Passive. Linguistic Inquiry, 1986, 17, 587-622.
>
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> Language and Information
>
> Lempert, Henrietta. Acquisition of passives: the role of patient animacy,
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> 677-696.
>
> Linguistic Inquiry, 29, 311-332.
>
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>
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Sentence
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>
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>
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> 167-191.
>
> Marchman, V. A., Bates, E., Burkardt, A. & Good, A. B. Functional
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>
> Marchman, V. A., Harris, C. R., Juarez, L. A. & Bates, E. Functional
> constraints on the production of complex syntax. (unpublished, manuscript
sent
> by the authors)
>
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> Encontro da Associa??o Portuguesa de Ling??stica. Coimbra, 1993.
>
> McQueen, James M. Segmentation of continuous speech using phonotactics.
> Journal of memory and language, 39, 21-46, 1998.
>
> Meints, Kerstin. Hitten and scratched and almost deadened: How prototypes
can
> predict the acquisition of the English passive. Hamburg, 1998. Tese de
> Doutorado.
>
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>
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>
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Dissertacao de
> Mestrado.
>
> Pierce, A.E.  (1992).  The acquisition of passives in Spanish and the
question
> of A-chain maturation.  Language Acquisition, 2, 55-81.
>
> Pinker, S., Lebaux, O. S. & Frost, L. A. (1987). Productivity and
Constraints
> in the Acquisition of the passive. Cognition, 26, 195-267.
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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> English,
>
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>
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>
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>
> Swingle, Daniel, Pinto, John P. & Fernald, Anne. Continuous processing in
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> recognition at 24 months. Cognition, 71 (1999) 73-108.
>
> Tomasello, M., Brooks, P., & Stern, E. (1998).  Learning to produce
> passive sentences through discourse.  First Language, 18, 223-237.
>
>
>
> Tomasello, Michael, Brooks, Patricia J. & Stern, Elissa. The item-based
nature
> of children=92s early syntactic development.  Trends in Cognitive
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> 4, n=B0 4, April 2000.
>
> Trosborg, Anna. Reversibility and the acquisition of complex syntactic
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> Printed in England.
>
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in
> Portuguese-speaking children. Journal of Child Language, 23, 1996,
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>
> Van Der Lely, Heather K. J. Specifically language impaired and normally
> developing children: verbal passive vs. adjectival passive sentence
> interpretation. Lingua 98 (1996) 243-272.
>
>
> Xiaoping Deng "Acquisition of Implicit Arguments" University of
massachusetts
> Occasional Papers UMOP 9
>
> Roeper, Tom  "Acquisition of Passive and Implicit Arguments" in Macwhinney
> (1985) Mechanisms of Language Change
>
> Roeper and B. Pearson (2000) have a paper on passive and SLI  and the
> optional/obligatory distinction as crucial to acquisition.  It will be
> presented
> at the upcoming wisconsin seminar--contact Barbara Pearson
> bpearson at comdis.umass.edu
> for a copy of the poster.
>
>
>
> Verrips Maaike 's dissertation titled: Potatoes must peel. Available from
the
> University of Amsterdam.
> Verrips, M.  (1993).  Comprehension of passive and anitcausative by Dutch
> children.
> Verrips, M.  (1996).  The categorial nature of children=92s passives.
> Amsterdam Series in Child Language Development, 5, 107-128.
>
> Verrips, Maaike. Passives and implicit arguments in child language. To
appear
> in: BUCLD 24, Proceedings of the 24th Boston University Conference on
Language
> Development, Casacadilla press 2000
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