The Development of Grammar

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Language acquisition and diachronic change. In honour of Jürgen M. Meisel

Esther Rinke Tanja Kupisch(Editor)

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The Development of Grammar
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Introduction
References
Part I. (2)L1 versus L2 versus child L2
'Acquisition' in grammatical development
1. Grammatical development in different populations
1.1 Does UG constrain grammatical development in all populations?
1.2 Why study word order in development?
1.3 Bilingual acquisition is like monolingual acquisition
2. Negation and verb position in adult SLA
2.1 Why study negation?
2.2 The rapid emergence of anaphoric and constituent negation
2.3 Word order in the development of propositional negation
3. Induction and problem-solving as a solution to word order in adult SLA
3.1 Exemplar-based and statistical learning: Data-driven learning of distributional patterns
3.2 Concept-based learning and problem-solving
3.3 Problem-solving entails intention and possibly awareness
4. Word order may also reflect the mapping to prosody
5. Conclusions
References
Tense and Aspect in early French development in aL2, 2L1 and cL2 learners
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 Tense and Aspect (TA) in L1 and aL2 acquisition
2.2 TA in cL2 development
2.3 Comparing Swedish-French aL2, 2L1 and cL2
3. Present study, methods
3.1 Learners and recordings
3.2 Comparisons
4. French in adult L2 acquisition (aL2)
4.1 The aL2 learners
4.2 TA marking vs. default forms in aL2
4.3 Past reference and lexical Aspect in aL2
5. French TA in bilingual acquisition (2L1)
5.1 The 2L1 learners
5.2 TA markings vs. default forms in 2L1
5.3 Past reference and lexical Aspect in 2L1
6. TA in child L2 acquisition (cL2)
6.1 The cL2 learners
6.2 TA marking vs. default forms in cL2
6.3 Past reference and lexical Aspect in cL2
6.4 Comparisons
7. Summary and discussion
Acknowledgments
References
Subject clitics in child L2 acquisition of French
1. Introduction
2. Clitic subject pronouns in French
2.1 Inventory of SCL and inflectional paradigm in colloquial French
2.2 Properties and syntactic status of colloquial French SCL
3. SCL in different types of language acquisition
3.1 2L1 acquisition
3.2 Adult L2 acquisition
3.3 Child L2 acquisition
4. The cL2 study
4.1 Presentation of the data
4.2 Method and criteria
4.3 Results
5. Conclusions
References
Placement of infinitives in successive child language acquisition
1. Introduction
2. Infinitives in L1 and L2 acquisition
2.1 Root infinitives in L1 German
2.2 Verb placement in L2 German
3. The study
4. Results
4.1 Results - Ewa
4.2 Results - Witek
4.3 Results - Adam
4.4 Results - Jan
5. Summary and discussion
Acknowledgments
References
Part II. The acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories
The developmental pathway of nominal functional categories in early child Mandarin
1. Introduction
2. Grammatical considerations
3. Methodology
4. Results
4.1 Co-existence of D + Cl and Num + Cl (1st to 3rd sessions)
4.2 Emergence of D + Cl + N and Num + Cl + N in the 4th session
4.3 Emergence of D + Num + Cl + (N) structure in the 5th session
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
The emergence of CP in child Basque
1. Introduction
2. The syntax of CP-related structures in Basque
2.1 Starting assumptions
2.2 Presentation of CP-related structures
2.3 Syntactic analysis
3. Methods of data collection and analysis
4. Results
4.1 The acquisition of finiteness
4.2 Emergence of CP-related structures in Basque
5. Discussion and conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Some directions for the systematic investigation of the acquisition of Cypriot Greek
1. Introducing CAT: The Cyprus Acquisition Team
2. Some relevant aspects of CG grammar
2.1 The (socio)linguistic reality of CG
2.2 Clitics in Modern Greek
3. Acquisition of CG object clitics: Developing a knowledge base
3.1 Clitics-in-islands test (COST Action A33)
3.2 Participants
3.3 Materials
3.4 Methodology
4. Results
4.1 Control group: CG adults
4.2 Target group: TD 5-year-old children (TD5)
4.3 An unlikely control group: TD 3- and 4-year-old children (TD3-4)
4.4 Results: A first interpretation
5. Discussion and outlook: Towards a socio-syntax of development
References
Strict interfaces and three kinds of Multiple Grammar
1. Introduction
1.1 Multiple Grammars and the lexicon
1.2 Variation types
2. Strict Interfaces
2.1 Pragmatic Interfaces
2.2 Animal Interfaces
2.3 Semantic Interface
3. Innate endowment and Efficient Computation
3.1 Interfaces and interactions
3.2 Strict Interfaces and Classical Innateness
3.3 Projections from Merge
3.4 Helen Keller and External Systems
4. Strict Interfaces: A substantive example
4.1 Parameters and Externalization
4.2 Competition Model
4.3 Compatibility Model
4.4 Structural Extension: Another form of Multiple Grammars (MG)
4.5 Counter-argument
4.6 Conclusions and consequences
5. Critical Period Hypothesis
6. Conclusions
References
Part III Autonomous development vs. crosslinguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisitio
Delay and acceleration in bilingual first language acquisition
1. Delay and acceleration: A survey
2. Delay effects and null-subjects in Italian and Spanish
2.1 Null-subjects in adult Italian, Spanish, German and French:Quantitative aspects
2.2 Subject omissions and realizations by bilingual German-Italian, German-Spanish and French-Italian children
3. Acceleration effects and finite verb placement in German main clauses
3.1 Monolingual acquisition of verb placement in German
3.2 Finite verb placement in bilingual German-Italian and German-French children
3.3 Acceleration effects and language dominance
4. Acceleration effects are the effects of bilingualism, not of cross-linguistic influence
References
Intonation targets of yes/no questions by Spanish and German monolingual and bilingual children
1. Introduction
1.1 Similarities and differences of Spanish and German absolute interrogatives
2. The acquisition of absolute interrogatives by Spanish and German monolingual and bilingual children
2.1 L1 acquisition of declarative intonation
2.2 L1 acquisition of interrogative intonation
3. Results
3.1 Monolinguals
3.2 Bilinguals
3.3 Summary of results and discussion
4. Conclusions
References
Appendix
Perception of German vowels by bilingual Portuguese-German returnees
1. Introduction
2. The present study
3. The vowel systems
4. Method
4.1 Participants
4.2 Stimuli
4.3 Procedures
5. Results and discussion
5.1 Vowel pairs that differ in terms of duration
5.2 Vowel pairs that differ in terms of quality only
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Part IV. Language acquisition, language contact and diachronic change
Acquisition in the context of language change
1. Introduction
2. The null subject parameter and the changes in Brazilian Portuguese
2.1 Parallel changes
2.2 The distribution of pronouns and null subjects in European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese
2.3 Contexts of resistance to change in BP
3. An analysis of residual Null Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese: The null expletive and the 'anaphoric' Null Subject
3.1 An analysis adapted from the 'generalized control' theory(Huang 1989)
3.2 NS as logophoric pronouns in BP
3.3 Parameters as a function of functional lexical items
4. How does a child acquire a language like Brazilian Portuguese?
4.1 Hypotheses
4.2 Empirical evidence
5. The grammar of the literate Brazilian
6. Conclusion
References
On the diachronic reanalysis of null subjects and null objects in Brazilian Portuguese
1. Introduction
2. On the reanalysis of null subjects in BP
2.1 Referential null subjects in BP as A-traces
2.2 Acquisition issues
2.3 Some consequences
2.4 Summary
3. The emergence of pronominal null objects in BP
3.1 Directionality of cliticization and the licensing of 3PACC clitics
3.2 Further consequences
4. Concluding remarks
References
On the decrease in subject-verb inversion in French declaratives
1. Introduction
2. Subject-verb inversion in declarative root clauses in the history of French
3. The notion of V2
4. On the V2 status of Medieval French
5. Accounting for the decrease in subject-verb inversion without recourse to V2
5.1 The proposal by Rinke & Meisel (2009)
5.2 On the plausibility of the proposal by Rinke & Meisel (2009)
5.3 An alternative approach to the decrease in subject-verb inversion in the history of French
References
Medieval French editions consulted
On the relation between acceptability and frequency
1. Introduction
2. Combining various data sources: The sgs database
2.1 Syntactically annotated spontaneous speech
2.2 Gradient acceptability judgment test
3. Analyzing the data
3.1 Judgments
3.2 Spontaneous speech data
4. Comparing judgment and spontaneous speech data
5. Conclusion
References
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