Book: Conflicts in Interpretation
Chapter: Speaking versus understanding in language acquisition
Blurb:
Previous chapters of this book have paid attention to bidirectional Optimality Theory, stressing the importance of bidirectionality in natural language interpretation.
The present chapter aims to answer the question whether the failure to optimize bidirectionally is an example of a more general pattern that can also be observed in other areas of language comprehension. Moreover, it aims to answer whether the hypothesized failure to optimize bidirectionally has similar consequences for children’s production of marked forms. That is, if children also experience problems producing marked forms.