Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition
Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons
1st Edition
Published on 18. July 1996
XXVIII, 499 pages
978-90-272-8172-2 (ISBN)
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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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Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons
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- GENERATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Tables and Figures
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- References
- The Optional-Infinitive Stage in Child English: Evidence from Negation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- 3. Theory of Optional Infinitives in English
- 4. Natural Production Data
- 5. Elicitation Study
- 6. Conclusion
- Appendix A. Cases of Tense-Determinable Medial Negation
- Appendix B. Transcripts and Ages
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Towards a Structure-Building Model of Acquisition
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Null Subjects
- 3. Case
- 4. Negation
- 5. Wh-Questions
- 6. Universality
- 7. Explanatory Adequacy
- 8. Summary and Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- The Underspecification of Functional Categories in Early Grammar
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Parameter Mis-setting or Fast Setting
- 3. Empirical Considerations
- 4. A Theory of Underspecification
- 5. Extensions to the D-system
- 6. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Lexical Learning in Early Syntactic Development
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Some Elements of a Lexical Learning Approach to Syntactic Development
- 3. Results
- 4. Summary and Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Strong Continuity, Parameter Setting and the Trigger Hierarchy: On the Acquisition of the DP in Bernese Swiss German and High German
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Strong Continuity, Parameter Setting and the Trigger Hierarchy
- 3. The Development of the DP
- 4. Summary and Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Subject-Verb and Object-Verb Agreement in Early Basque
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Agreement and Case in Basque
- 3. Aspects of a Theory of Agreement
- 4. The Gasteiz-Hamburg Corpus
- 5. The Development of Agreement in Basque
- 6. Discussion: The Acquisition of Verb-Argument Agreement
- 7. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Acquisition of Italian Interrogatives
- 1. Introduction
- 2. English and Italian Interrogative Sentences
- 3. Negative and Positive Interrogatives in English
- 4. Possible Expectations for Early Italian
- 5. The Study of Italian Interrogative Sentences
- 6. Discussion
- 7. Conclusions
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Root Infinitives, Clitics and Truncated Structures
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Structure of the West-Germanic SOV languages
- 3. Root Infinitives in the Acquisition of Dutch
- 4. Clitics and Clitic Projections in Romance and in Germanic
- 5. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Method
- 3. Results
- 4. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Clitics in L2 French
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Strong and Weak Pronouns in French
- 3. Analysis of Clitics
- 4. Hypothesis and Data
- 5. Subject Clitics
- 6. Object Clitics
- 7. Clitic Doubling, Spec-head Agreement and Other Matters
- 8. Discussion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- The Initial Hypothesis of Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective on Language Acquisition and Attrition
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Minimalist Program
- 3. The Early Stage
- 4. The Use of the IHS in Language Acquisition and Attrition
- 5. The Acquisition of Swedish and the Initial Hypothesis of Syntax
- 6. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- The Role of Merger Theory and Formal Features in Acquisition
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Merger Theory
- 3. Evidence for Lexical Maximal Projections: are and auch 'also'
- 4. Wh-questions, Unique Maximal Projections, and CP
- 5. Merger Interpretations
- 6. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Now, Hang on a Minute: Some reflections on emerging orthodoxies
- 1. Continuity, Full Competence and Developmental Mechanisms
- 2. The Evidence for Continuity - Optional Infinitives
- 3. On Difficulties in Knowing What We Are Talking about
- 4. Concessions
- 5. The Costs of Continuity
- 6. Tricks with Numbers
- 7. Minimalism
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
