@inbook{2a6e3f289a624b8a8c31fa1d2cd24e29,
title = "On Child Subjects in a Partially Pro-Drop Language",
abstract = "In this paper we investigate the production of (null) subjects in the spontaneous speech of 15 monolingual children between the ages of 1;09 and 3;01 acquiring Hebrew, a partially pro-drop language. Our results show that all children behave adultlike regarding the pro-drop part of Hebrew. Furthermore, Root Infinitives appear with underspecified subjects (most of them null), and the majority of the finite verbs requiring an overt subject occur correctly with a specified subject as predicted by Hoekstra & Hyams (1995): 67% for the younger children, and 96% for the older children. The 33% unexplained underspecified subjects with finite verbs in the youngest age group are accounted for by the lack of the pragmatic Concept of Non-Shared Assumptions (Schaeffer 1999).",
author = "Jeannette Schaeffer and {Ben Shalom}, Dorit",
year = "2008",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1075/la.134.10onc",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027255174",
series = "Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "245--266",
editor = "Sharon Armon-Lotem and {Danon }, Gabi and Rothstein, {Susan }",
booktitle = "Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics",
address = "Netherlands",
}