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During language acquisition children often produce forms that are unattested in standard adult language. Among these forms, we find commissive errors, defined in Alexiadou, Guasti and Sauerland (2021) as overt realizations of some complex conceptual structure that is ‘compressed’ in adult language. Drawing on corpus data on causative and comparative marking in child French and English, we show that one common class of errors involves redundant, multiple exponence (ME).We argue that redundant errors reflect an attempt by the child to obey two competing principles, Maximize Exponence and Minimize Exponence. Furthermore, these cases of ME also occur across word boundaries, providing evidence in favour of syntactic models of morphology. We present two possible analyses of multiple exponence in child language, involving spanning in Nanosyntax and Fusion in Distributed Morphology.
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