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Lebeaux’s paper has numerous dimensions with far reaching consequences. I will comment on several of these briefly and then discuss only one in depth, namely his proposal concerning the existence, nature and interaction of default parameters and operations. A default theory of case and agreement will be outlined, based on child and adult data.
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Vainikka, A. (1990). The Status of Grammatical Default Systems: Comments on Lebeaux. In: Frazier, L., De Villiers, J. (eds) Language Processing and Language Acquisition. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3808-6_3
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