Alison Henry

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alison Henry plays a role.

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Henry, Alison 2016 Acquiring language from variable input: Subject-verb agreement and negative concord in Belfast English Child Language Variation: Sociolinguistic and formal approaches, Lacoste, Véronique and Lisa Green (eds.), pp. 131–150 | Article

Thisi paper considers the impact of morphosyntactic variation in the input on the language acquisition process. In particular, it studies the acquisition of variable subject-verb agreement and variable negative concord by children acquiring the Belfast dialect of English. It finds that, given… read more

Henry, Alison 2005 Idiolectal variation and syntactic theory Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social, Cornips, Leonie and Karen P. Corrigan (eds.), pp. 109–122 | Article

Henry, Alison 1997 Why syntax is different: a UG approach to language disorders in children Focus on Phonological Acquisition, Hannahs, S.J. and Martha Young-Scholten (eds.), pp. 47–66 | Article

Henry, Alison 1997 The Syntax of Belfast English Focus on Ireland, Kallen, Jeffrey L. (ed.), pp. 89–108 | Article

Henry, Alison 1996 Imperative inversion in Belfast English Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation, Black, James R. and Virginia Motapanyane (eds.), pp. 79–94 | Article