Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition

Our objective is to shed light on recursion through an exploration of the L1 development of four DP structures in English. Since recursion is in narrow syntax, there is no reason to expect asymmetries between constructions but specific formal differences between structures might make acquisition of certain forms more difficult, and there may be differences according to meaning classes. We report a study targeting possessives, comitatives, locatives, and part-whole expressions, each with 2-level