Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition
Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons
Published on 18. July 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
499 pages
978-1-55619-780-2 (ISBN)
Description
Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics. With regard to previous research, the book focuses on the acquisition of syntax and syntactic theory, specifically on Chomskyan Generative Grammar.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-780-2 (9781556197802)
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Person
Content
1. Tables and Figures; 2. Abbreviations; 3. Contributors; 4. Introduction (by Clahsen, Harald); 5. The Optional-Infinitive Stage in Child English: Evidence from Negation (by Harris, Tony); 6. Towards a Structure-Building Model of Acquisition (by Radford, Andrew); 7. The Underspecification of Functional Categories in Early Grammar (by Hyams, Nina); 8. Lexical Learning in Early Syntactic Development (by Clahsen, Harald); 9. Strong Continuity, Parameter Setting and the Trigger Hierarchy: On the Acquisition of the DP in Bernese Swiss German and High German (by Penner, Zvi); 10. Subject-Verb and Object-Verb Agreement in Early Basque (by Meisel, Jurgen M.); 11. Acquisition of Italian Interrogatives (by Guasti, Maria Teresa); 12. Root Infinitives, Clitics and Truncated Structures (by Haegeman, Liliane); 13. On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French (by Hamann, Cornelia); 14. Clitics in L2 French (by White, Lydia); 15. The Initial Hypothesis of Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective on Language Acquisition and Attrition (by Platzack, Christer); 16. The Role of Merger Theory and Formal Features in Acquisition (by Roeper, Thomas); 17. How, Hang on a Minute: Some reflections on emerging orthodoxies (by Atkinson, Martin); 18. Index of Names; 19. Index of Subjects