Volume 22, Winter 2000

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Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 22, Winter 2000
(University of Calgary, 2000-01) Atkey, Susan; Carson, Jana; Dobrovolsky, Michael
The editors of this volume, Susan Atkey, Jana Carson, and Michael Dobrovolsky, are pleased to present the twenty-second issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics published by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Calgary. The papers contained in this volume represent works in progress and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive.
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Pronoun acquisition and the morphological feature geometry
(University of Calgary, 2000-01) Hanson, Rebecca
The acquisition of pronouns has received limited attention in the literature, and there are few studies which deal with this topic in detail. From the data available, clear and sometimes surprising patterns of uniformity and variability emerge. Previous attempts to account for these patterns have all faced similar problems, specifically in explaining the heterogeneous initial set of pronouns (first person singular, and third person singular inanimate), and in accounting for the variation that is found. In this paper I find that these previously problematic areas are readily accounted for using the hierarchy of morphological features proposed by Ritter and Harley (1998).