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Object drop in the L1 acquisition of Dutch
Thrift, K.E.
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2003
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Thrift, K. E. (2003). Object drop in the L1 acquisition of Dutch. LOT.
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IGURES TablesTable 2.1 Demonstrative Pronouns in Dutch Table 2.2 Other D-Words in Dutch
Table 2.3 Rates of Argument Drop from Topic Position in Adult Dutch: Personal versus Demonstrative Pronouns (based on Jansen 1981)
Table 2.4 Rates of Subject and Object Drop from Topic Position In Adult Dutch (based on Jansen 1981)
Table 2.5 Ability for Various Constituents to Topicalize, Undergo D-Word Replacement or Undergo Drop
Table 2.6 Four Potential Grammars for Child Dutch Object Drop Table 3.1 Summary of Rates of Subject Drop and Object
Drop in Child English (based on Hyams and Wexler 1993)
Table 3.2 Rates of Obligatory and Optional Object Drop in Child English (based on Valian 1991)
Table 3.3 Rates of Dropped Objects in VACs (Adam, Eve, Sarah) (based on Sawyer 1999)
Table 3.4 Rates of Null Subjects and Null Objects in Child French (Spontaneous Data) (based on Jakubowicz et al 1997b)
Table 3.5 Rates of Null Subjects and Null Objects in Child Japanese (based on Hirakawa 1993 and Guerriero et al 2001)
Table 3.6 Rates of Null Subjects and Null Objects in Child Chinese (based on Wang et al 1992)
Table 3.7 Rates of Null Subjects and Null Objects in Child
German (based on Jakubowicz et al 1997b and Hamann 1996)
Table 3.8 Rates of Target-Deviant Object Drop out of All Object Drop in Child German (based on Boser 1997, Jakubowicz et al 1997b, and Hamann 1996)
Table 3.9 Rates of Null Subjects and Null Objects in Child Dutch (based on Krämer 1995)
Table 3.10 Rates of Object Drop with Optionally and Obligatorily Transitive Verbs in Child Dutch (based on Krämer 1995)
TABLES AND FIGURES 246 Table 3.11 Rates of Object Drop with Finite and Infinitival
Obligatorily Transitive Verbs in Child Dutch (based on
Krämer 1995)
Table 3.12 Rates of Object Drop with Finite Obligatorily Transitive Verbs and Embedded Infinitival Obligatorily Transitive Verbs in Child Dutch (based on Krämer 1995)
Table 3.13 Rate of Ungrammatical (Postverbal Obligatory Object Drop in Child Dutch (based on Blankenstijn and
Scheper, forthcoming)
Table 3.14 Rates of Sentence-Initial Object Drop not Meeting Discourse Criteria (Blankenstijn & Scheper, forthcoming)
Table 3.15 Rates of Null Subjects and Null Objects Across
Child Languages
Table 4.1 Arnold’s Age & MLU Table 4.2 Diederik’s Age & MLU Table 4.3 Gijs’ Age & MLU Table 4.4 Joost’s Age & MLU Table 4.5 Katelijne’s Age & MLU Table 4.6 Maria’s Age & MLU
Table 4.7 Division of Data into MLU Levels
Table 5.1 Average Rates of Subject and Obligatory Object Drop in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level
Table 5.2 Average Rate of Obligatory and Optional Object Drop in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level Table 5.3 Average Rate of Object Drop in All Utterances in Young
Dutch Children (n=6) by Sentence Position
Table 5.4 Rate of Object Drop from Sentence-Initial Position as a Proportion of All Object Drop in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level
Table 5.5 Rate of Object Drop by Sentence Position for Arnold Table 5.6 Rate of Object Drop by Sentence Position for Diederik Table 5.7 Rate of Object Drop by Sentence Position for Gijs Table 5.8 Rate of Object Drop by Sentence Position for Joost Table 5.9 Rate of Object Drop by Sentence Position for Katelijne Table 5.10 Rate of Object Drop by Sentence Position for Maria
Table 5.11 Average Rate of Object Drop in Finite and Nonfinite Clauses in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6)
Table 5.12 Average Rate of Object Drop in Finite and Nonfinite Clauses in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level
Table 5.13 Rate of Object Drop in Finite and Nonfinite Clauses for Arnold Table 5.14 Rate of Object Drop in Finite and Nonfinite Clauses for
Diederik
Table 5.15 Rate of Object Drop in Finite and Nonfinite Clauses for Gijs Table 5.16 Rate of Object Drop in Finite and Nonfinite Clauses for Joost Table 5.17 Rate of Object Drop in Finite and Nonfinite Clauses for
Katelijne
Table 5.18 Rate of Object Drop in Finite and Nonfinite Clauses for Maria Table 5.19 Average Rate of Object Drop in Perfective and Non-Perfective
Clauses in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) Table 5.20 Average Rate of Object Drop in Perfective and Non-Perfective
Clauses in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level
Table 5.21 Object Drop in Perfective and Non-Perfective Clauses in Arnold
Table 5.22 Object Drop in Perfective and Non-Perfective Clauses in Diederik
Table 5.23 Object Drop in Perfective and Non-Perfective Clauses in Gijs Table 5.24 Object Drop in Perfective and Non-Perfective Clauses in Joost Table 5.25 Object Drop in Perfective and Non-Perfective Clauses in
Katelijne
Table 5.26 Object Drop in Perfective and Non-Perfective Clauses in Maria Table 5.27 Average Rates of Object Drop with Infinitival and Finite
Perfective Verbs and Other Infinitival and Finite Verbs in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6)
Table 5.28 Average Rates of Object Drop with Infinitival Perfective Verbs and Other Infinitival Verbs in All Utterances Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level
Table 5.29 Average Rates of Object Drop with Finite Perfective Verbs and Other Finite Verbs in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level
Table 5.30 Rates of Object Drop with Infinitival and Finite Perfective Verbs and Other Infinitival and Finite Verbs for Arnold
Table 5.31 Rates of Object Drop with Infinitival and Finite Perfective Verbs and Other Infinitival and Finite Verbs for Diederik Table 5.32 Rates of Object Drop with Infinitival and Finite Perfective
Verbs and Other Infinitival and Finite Verbs for Gijs
Table 5.33 Rates of Object Drop with Infinitival and Finite Perfective Verbs and Other Infinitival and Finite Verbs for Joost
TABLES AND FIGURES 248 Table 5.34 Rates of Object Drop with Infinitival and Finite Perfective
Verbs and Other Infinitival and Finite Verbs for Katelijne Table 5.35 Rates of Object Drop with Infinitival and Finite Perfective
Verbs and Other Infinitival and Finite Verbs for Maria
Table 5.36 Object Drop with Past Perfective Clauses, Particle Verbs and Other Telic Verb Clusters in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6)
Table 5.37 Object Drop in Particle Verbs and Past Perfective Clauses in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level Table 5.38 Stages, MLUs, Ages and Rates of Object Drop in Child Dutch Table 6.1 Child Languages in which Telicity Effects were Found (based
on Wagner 1999)
Table 6.2 Average Rates of Infinitival Clauses in Transitive Particle Verbs and Transitive Non-particle Verbs in All Utterances by Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level
Table 6.3 Rates of Object Drop with Particle Verbs Compared to Rates of Infinitival Particle in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level
Table 6.4 First Appearances of Determiners in Child Dutch (based on Schaerlaekens and Gillis 1987)
Table 6.5 Ages and MLUs of Regular Determiner Use and Decreased
Object Drop for Individual Children
Table 6.6 Rates of Dropped Objects in VACs (Adam, Eve and Sarah)
(based on Sawyer 1999)
Table 6.7 Adam’s Age and MLU Range
Table 6.8 Rate of Object Drop with Telic and Atelic VACs in Adam FIGURES
Figure 4.1 Hierarchy of Classification for Object Drop Figure 4.2 Hierarchy of Classification for Subject Drop
Figure 4.3 Hierarchy of Classification for Optional & Obligatory Transitives
Figure 4.4 Hierarchy of Classification for Sentence-Initial Object Drop Figure 4.5 Hierarchy of Classification for Topicalized Objects
Figure 4.6 Hierarchy of Classification for Finite and Nonfinite Clauses Figure 4.7 Hierarchy of Classification for Perfectivity
Figure 5.1 Average Rates of Subject and Obligatory Object Drop in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level
Figure 5.2 Average Rate of Obligatory and Optional Object Drop in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level Figure 5.3 Average Rate of Object Drop in Finite and Nonfinite Clauses
in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level
Figure 5.4 Average Rate of Object Drop in Perfective and Non-Perfective Clauses in All Utterances in Young Dutch Children (n=6) by MLU Level
Figure 5.4 Hierarchy of Classification for Perfective Infinitival and Finite Verbs and Other Infinitival and Finite Verbs