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In this chapter, I return to the results of acquisition experiments, and experiments with Broca’s aphasics. The deficit observed in these two populations, I suggest, is due to certain limitations on resources needed for making inferences required for the correct deictic use of a definite NP. This explanation, which is close in spirit to the one proposed by Chien and Wexler (1990) is based on the argument that there is a specific relation between reference and indexation, and that children’s (and aphasics’) problem is closely related to this relationship.
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Avrutin, S. (1999). Anomalous Indexation. In: Development of the Syntax-Discourse Interface. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1239-2_4
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