Language Acquisition And Syntactic Theory
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Author |
: A.E. Pierce |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789401125741 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9401125740 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory by : A.E. Pierce
The theory of language acquisition is a young but increasingly active field. Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory presents one of the first detailed studies of comparative syntax acquisition. It is informed by the view that linguists and acquisitionists are essentially working on the same problem, that of explaining grammar learnability. The author takes cross-linguistic data from child language as evidence for recent proposals in syntactic theory. Developments in the structure of children's sentences during the first few years of life are traced to changes in the setting of specific grammatical parameters. Some surprising differences between the early child grammars of French and English are uncovered, differences that can only be explained on the basis of subtle distinctions in inflectional structure. This motivates the author's claim that functional or nonthematic categories are represented in the grammars of very young children. The book also explores the relationship between acquisition and diachronic change in French and English. It is argued that findings in acquisition, when viewed from a parameter setting perspective, provide answers to important questions arising in the study of language change. The book promises to be of interest to all those involved in the formal, psychological or historical study of linguistic knowledge.
Author |
: Barbara Lust |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 394 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0805813519 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780805813517 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Heads, projections, and learnability by : Barbara Lust
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Barbara Lust |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 580 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0805813500 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780805813500 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Binding, dependencies, and learnability by : Barbara Lust
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Michaela Müller |
Publisher |
: GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 53 |
Release |
: 2010-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783640521494 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3640521498 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition by : Michaela Müller
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Cologne (English Seminar), course: Hauptseminar Syntactic theory and first language acquisition, language: English, abstract: Heather's (26 months old) speech shows that she has already entered the later multi-word stage. She makes use of the three primary functional category systems (the D-system, the I-system and the C-system), which are projections of the corresponding functional categories (D, I and C).The core assumption of the X-bar model is that any word category X can function as the head of a phrase and can be projected into the corresponding phrasal category XP by addition of up to three different kinds of modifiers which are full phrasal constituents: complement, adjunct and specifier. Therefore, phrases in English have the schematic structure below: [x'' specifier [x' adjunct [x' [x head] complement/s]]] Functional category systems, in contrast to lexical category systems, lack semantic content, but have grammatical meaning. Furthermore, functional elements permit only one complement. All of these functional category systems consist of a head, a complement and a nonthematic specifier position and so have a symmetrical structure. The following essay will describe these systems of English and the use of nonthematic specifier positions in adult grammar.
Author |
: Philip Herdina |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 112 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105017736492 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory by : Philip Herdina
Author |
: Peter W. Culicover |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0198700237 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780198700234 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Syntactic Nuts by : Peter W. Culicover
How are native speakers of a language instinctively able to make precise linguistic judgements about marginal syntactic matters? What does this tell us about both the structure of language and our innate language ability as humans? These questions form the focus of Professor Culicover's in-depth study which will appeal to both graduate students and professionals within the fields of linguistic theory and cognitive science.
Author |
: Thom Huebner |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 1991-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027224637 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027224633 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crosscurrents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theories by : Thom Huebner
The term crosscurrent is defined as a current flowing counter to another. This volume represents crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theory in several respects. First, although the main currents running between linguistics and second language acquisition have traditionally flowed from theory to application, equally important contributions can be made in the other direction as well. Second, although there is a strong tendency in the field of linguistics to see theorists working within formal models of syntax, SLA research can contribute to linguistic theory more broadly defined to include various functional as well as formal models of syntax, theories of phonology, variationist theories of sociolinguists, etc. These assumptions formed the basis for a conference held at Stanford University during the Linguistic Institute there in the summer of 1987. The conference was organized to update the relation between second language acquisition and linguistic theory. This book contains a selection of (mostly revised and updated) papers of this conference and two newly written papers.
Author |
: Barbara Lust |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:93042783 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Heads, projections, and learnability by : Barbara Lust
Author |
: Andrew Radford |
Publisher |
: Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 1991-01-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0631163581 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780631163589 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax by : Andrew Radford
Between the ages of one-and-a-half and two years children start to form elementary phrases and clauses. This stage of their linguistic development provides the first clear evidence that they have begun to develop a grammar of the language being acquired. It is therefore of paramount importance for any attempt to construct a theory of language acquisition. Drawing data from a corpus of more that 100,000 spontaneous utterances, Andrew Radford demonstrates that the fundamental characteristic of children's earliest structures is that they are essentially lexical and thematic in nature. They show evidence of the acqusition of lexical but not functional categories, and of thematic but not nonthematic constituents. This hypothesis provides a unified account of a wide range of phenomena in early child English including children's nonmastery of determiners, possessives, pronouns, missing arguments, expletives, case, binding, tense, agreement, auxiliaries, infinitives, complementisers, and movement phenomena. This detailed study of children's initial grammars suggests a model of acquisition which is essentially maturational. Different modules of the child's grammar come into operation at different stages of development, triggered by relevant aspects of the child's experience. In this, Radford's account sheds significant light on some of the fundamental questions for the theory of language acquisition.
Author |
: Nina Hyams |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789400946385 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9400946384 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters by : Nina Hyams
This book is perhaps the most stunning available demonstration of the explanatory power of the parametric approach to linguistic theory. It is akin, not to a deductive proof, but to the discovery of a footprint in a far-off place which leaves an archeologist elated. The book is full of intricate reasoning, but the stunning aspect is that the reasoning moves between not only complex syntax and diverse languages, but it makes predictions about what two-year-old children will assume about the jumble of linguistic input that confronts them. Those predictions, Hyams shows, are supported by a discriminating analysis of acquisition data in English and Italian. Let us examine the linguistic context for a moment before we discuss her theory. The ultimate issue in linguistic theory is the explanation of how a child can acquire any human language. To capture this fact we must posit an innate mechanism which meets two opposite constraints: it must be broad enough to account for the diversity of human language, and narrow enough so that the child does not make irrelevant hypotheses about his own language, particularly ones from which there is no recovery. That is, a child must not posit a grammar which permits all of the sentences of a language as well as other sentences which are not in the language. In a word, the child must not create a language in which one cannot make adult discriminations between grammatical and ungrammatical.