Grammatical Features And The Acquisition Of Reference
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Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference
Author | : Sergio Baauw |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781136711404 |
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This book discusses to what extent errors young children make with their interpretation of definite articles and pronouns are due to their immature pragmatic skills, and to what extent incomplete syntactic development plays a role.
Merging Features
Author | : José M. Brucart,Anna Gavarró,Jaume Solà |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2009-01-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199553266 |
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In this book leading scholars examine the intricate ways in which Merge and formal features, two factors in the Minimalist Program, interact to generate well-formed derivations in natural language. The authors combine grammatical theory with the analysis of data drawn from a wide range of languages.
The Processing and Acquisition of Reference
Author | : Edward Gibson,Neal J. Pearlmutter |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262015127 |
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This book brings together contributions by prominent researchers in the fields of language processing and language acquisition on topics of common interest: how people refer to objects in the world, how people comprehend such referential expressions, and how children acquire the ability to refer and to understand reference.
Language Acquisition
Author | : Susan Foster-Cohen |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2009-07-16 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780230240780 |
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This book provides a snapshot of the field of language acquisition at the beginning of the 21st Century. It represents the multiplicity of approaches that characterize the field and provides a review of current topics and debates, as well as addressing some of the connections between sub-fields and possible future directions for research.
Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition
Author | : Jill de Villiers,Tom Roeper |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2011-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9400716885 |
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Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that promise has been fulfilled, exploring core concepts in acquisition theory, including notions of the initial state, parameters, triggering theory, the role of competition and frequency, and many others, across a variety of syntactic topics that have formed the central domains of investigation and debate. These topics are treated from the unique perspective of central actors in each domain who have helped shape the research agenda. The authors have presented a summary of the data, the theories under discussion, and their own best assessments of where each domain stands. Providing as well the agenda for future work in the field showing both particular needs and general directions that should be pursued in the coming decades.
Bilingual First Language Acquisition
Author | : Jürgen M. Meisel |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1994-09-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027284976 |
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The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific grammatical phenomena; explanations are given within the framework of the Principle and Parameter approach. The study is primarily concerned with the acquisition of so-called 'functional categories' and the consequences of their acquisition for the development of grammar. Specific points dealt with in these papers include: gender, number and case and their internal structure (DP vs NP); inflection and its consequences for agreement marking; and word order phenomena (subject-raising constructions (incl. passives), word order in subordinate clauses). The basic hypothesis underlying this study is that early child grammars consist only of lexical categories and that functional categories are implemented later in the child's grammar. How this happens exactly is the central issue explored in this book.
The Syntax of Nonsententials
Author | : Ljiljana Progovac |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027233578 |
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This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume makes a multidisciplinary case for the existence of nonsententials, which are analyzed in various chapters as root phrases and small clauses (Me; Me First!; Him worry?!; Class in session), and whose distinguishing property is the absence of Tense, and, with it, any syntactic phenomena that rely on Tense, including structural Nominative Case. Arguably, the lack of Tense specification is also responsible for the dearth of indicative interpretations among nonsententials, as well as for their heavy reliance on pragmatic context. So pervasive is nonsentential speech across all groups, including normal adult speech, that a case can be made that continuity of grammar lies in nonsentential, rather than sentential speech.
Dissolving Binding Theory
Author | : Johan Rooryck,Guido Vanden Wyngaerd |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2011-07-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780191619502 |
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This book examines the distribution and interpretation of anaphors and pronouns. Through a detailed analysis of simplex and complex anaphors in Dutch and English, as well as other Romance and Germanic languages, the authors show that the relationship between an anaphor and its antecedent can be captured in terms of general Minimalist principles.