The vulnerable C-domain.
The purpose of this article is to document the existence of a group of natural language speakers who display non-target-like production of the syntax at the highest structural level, the C-domain, but produce the syntax of lower structural levels in a target-like way. This group consists of very early L1 learners, children with Specific Language Impairment, adult L2 learners, and patients with Broca's aphasia. The group is established on the basis of data from Swedish and German, but can presumably be discerned for any language. The assumption that the non-target-like production of C-domain syntax is related to Broca's area is discussed, as are some consequences for modern syntactic theory.
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Department of Scandinavian Linguistics, Lund University.
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