First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax

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Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes María Pilar Larrañaga John Clibbens(Editor)

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Published on 26. June 2008

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First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Monolingual acquisition
2. Bilingual acquisition
3. Impaired language
Acknowledgments
References
Left-dislocated subjects
1. Introduction
2. Usage-based theory of language acquisition
3. Left-dislocated subjects
4. Goal of the study
5. Methods
5.1 Bath corpus
5.2 House corpus
6. Corpora analyses
6.1 Are children's dislocations mere reproduction of adult language?
6.2 Does the use of dislocations follow a developmental path?
6.3 Lexical choice
6.4 Item-based constructions
6.5 Length effect
6.6 Consequence of the development of pronoun marking on verbs
7. Conclusion
8. Acknowledgements
References
The development and interaction of Case and Number in early Russian
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 The Russian Case system
2.2 Environments of Case licensing
2.3 The interaction of Number and Case
2.4 Previous accounts of acquisition of Case and Number
3. Hypotheses and predictions
4. Methods
4.1 Subjects
4.2 Analysis
5. Results
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
References
Verb movement and subject placement in the acquisition of word order
1. Introduction
2. The word order of Norwegian
3. The child data
3.1 The corpus
3.2 The acquisition of verb movement and V2
3.3 Non-subject-initial declaratives and questions with negation/adverbs
4. Two possible analyses: pragmatics vs. economy
4.1 Delay in pragmatic competence
4.2 Economy of movement
5. Discussion
6. Summary and Conclusion
References
Three acquisition puzzles and the relation between input and output
1. Introduction
2. Verb placement in Swiss German
3. Overview of acquisition literature on embedded verb placement
4. Comparing input and output
4.1 A note on data collection
4.2 The occurrence of the verb-final pattern in the input
4.2.1 The occurrence of verb movement in the output
4.3 Verb placement in clauses introduced by wil because
4.4 The sequence 'Aux non-finite verb' vs. 'non-finite verb Aux'
5. Intermediate grammar and parameter setting
5.1 Essential similarities with word order in the target grammar
5.1.1 The presence of verb movement in the input
5.2 Partial V2 in Old and Middle English matrix clauses
5.3 Derivation of verb movement in the child grammar
6. Concluding remarks
References
Appendix
The acquisition of universal quantifiers in Spanish
1. On the distribution of subject quantifiers
1.1 Uribe-Etxebarria (1995)
1.2 Some problems for Uribe-Etxebarria's solution
1.3 Quantifiers with Clitic Left Dislocation
2. Some basics of acquisition of universal quantifiers
2.1 Five year-olds
2.2 Two types of errors
2.3 Awareness of WCO effects
3. The experiment
3.1 Rationale
3.2 Subjects
3.3 Method
3.4 The design of the experiment
4. Results
5. Discussion
References
Appendix: Items for experiments
Quantifiers in ordinary sentences
Experimental Yes/No-questions in CLLD sentences
Subject-object asymmetry in children's comprehension of sentences containing logical words
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical assumptions
2.1 The semantics and pragmatics of scales: the case of some and or
2.2 Specificity and reference
2.3 Scalar implicatures in acquisition
3. Predictions
4. Methodology
4.1 Subjects
4.2 Method
5. Results
5.1 Scalar implicature in description and prediction contexts-Adults
5.2 Scalar Implicature in description and prediction contexts - Children
5.3 Subject-object asymmetry
6. Discussion and conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Appendix
On the "vulnerability" of the left periphery in French/German balanced bilingual language acquisition
1. Introduction
2. The V2-structure in German
3. The left periphery in French
4. Possible influence of French on German
5. Possible influence of German on French
6. The acquisition data
7. The use of the left periphery in German
7.1 The use of the left periphery in the corpus of Pierre's German
7.2 The use of the left periphery in the corpus of Annika's German
8. The use of the left periphery in French
8.1 The use of the left periphery in the corpus of Pierre's French
8.2 The use of the left periphery in the corpus of Annika's French
9. Discussion of the results
10. Summary
Acknowledgement
References
The subjects of unaccusative verbs in bilingual Basque/Spanish children
1. Introduction
2. Previous research in acquisition of pragmatics
3. The unaccusative verbs
4. Topic and focus: a syntactic approach
5. Method
6. Results
6.1 Information status of subjects
6.1.1 Pre-verbal subjects: Basque
6.1.2 Pre-verbal subjects: Spanish
6.2. Post-verbal subjects
7. Discussion
8. Conclusions
References
Appendix A
Dominance, mixing and cross-linguistic influence
1. Introduction
2. Determiner use in French and German
3. Data
4. Language dominance and mixed language utterances
4.1 Language dominance
4.2 Mixed language utterances
5. Cross-linguistic influence in determiner acquisition
5.1 Determiners in the monolingual acquisition of French and German
5.2 Bilingual data
5.2.1 Comparing French and German
5.2.2 Comparing bilingual and monolingual data
6. Cross-linguistic influence from weaker to stronger language
7. Conclusions
References
A cross-linguistic analysis of binding in Down syndrome
1. Introduction
2. Properties of the pronominal system in Serbo-Croatian (SC)
2.1 Personal pronouns and pronominal clitics
2.2 The full reflexive pronoun and the reflexive clitic
3. A Reflexivity approach to Binding (Reinhart & Reuland, 1993)
3.1 Knowledge of binding in DS: Predictions
4. Experiment: Binding in Serbo-Croatian-speaking individuals with DS
4.1 Participants
4.2 Materials and procedure
4.3 Results
5. Knowledge of binding in English speakers with DS
6. Discussion
6.1 Cross-linguistic differences in anaphor interpretation
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Balanced bilingual children with two weak languages
1. Introduction
2. The adult systems
2.1 The realization of the subject and object position in French and German
2.2 Bare nouns in French and German
3. The acquisition literature
4. Bilingual first language acquisition with two delayed languages
4.1 The children under investigation: language balance and language norm
4.2 Subject / object omissions in bilingual children: Having one or two weak languages does not matter
4.3 Determiner omissions in bilingual children: Having two weak languages matters
4.4 A link to SLI and second language acquisition?: Having two weak languages matters
4.5 Summary of results
5. Discussion
References
Afterword
References
Index of subjects
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