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The Ups and Downs of Child Language : Experimental Studies on Children's Knowledge of Entailment Relationships and Polarity Phenomena.

The new experimental evidence presented in The Ups and Downs of Child Language shows that it is possible to extend research on child language to children's semantic competence, adopting the same theoretical framework that has proven useful to the study of children's syntactic competence. A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gualmini, Andrea
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Colección:Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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Sumario:The new experimental evidence presented in The Ups and Downs of Child Language shows that it is possible to extend research on child language to children's semantic competence, adopting the same theoretical framework that has proven useful to the study of children's syntactic competence. Andrea Gualmini investigates the role of entailment relations for child language in a series of interconnected experiments assessing children's negation and their interpretation of words like or, every, and some. Comparing his study to other models of language acquisition and characterizing the observed differ.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (306 pages)
ISBN:9781135875374
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