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Humans are born with a unique capacity for language. This innate information common to all humans consists, by hypothesis, of certain principles and parameters that the child modifies to accommodate a particular language. One interesting parameter is the Null Subject Parameter, which accounts for the allowances of sentences that do not contain a spoken subject. Spanish and English are two languages that differ in this characteristic. Therefore, the setting of these parameters must be easy enough for the child to learn. In this presentation the authors investigate the nature of this parameter in light of syntactic theory. |
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