The Pronoun Interpretation Problem in Hungarian. An overview of current directions in first language acquisition research

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art in research into the so-called Pronoun Interpretation Problem in first language acquisition, and it discusses the relevance of this problem in the acquisition of Hungarian. It is well-known that children face problems in judgement tasks concerning the acceptability of locally coreferential personal pronouns, whereas they can handle locally bound reflexive anaphors relatively well. Preliminary evidence suggesting the presence of the Problem in the first language acquisition of Hungarian is available, but research into this domain of Hungarian is still in its infancy. This paper aims at setting up the outlines of a research agenda for the study of the core issues in the acquisition of the Hungarian pronominal system