ABSTRACT
Building on results from experimental studies on the acquisition of passive indicating that young children sometimes respond with a reflexive construction to describe a transitive action, the proposal is put forth that the sentences involving the reflexive clitic si may represent a possible route to access the passive computation in the course of acquisition. In the same experimental conditions adults typically produce passive sentences with essere/be or venire/come auxiliary. Si-causative passive is then accessed by children, thus constituting a further step toward productive access to the passive computation.
