Universal grammar in child second language acquisition : null subjects and morphological uniformity /
This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English as a second language. The book provides evidence from the longitudinal...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©1994.
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Colección: | Language acquisition & language disorders ;
v. 10. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English as a second language. The book provides evidence from the longitudinal speech data of four child second language (L2) learners in order to test the predictions of a recent theory of null-subjects, namely, the Morphological Uniformity Principle (MUP). Lakshmanan argues that the child L2 acquisition data offer little or no evidence in support of the MUP's predictions reg. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-158) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027286666 9027286663 |