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Generative perspectives on language acquisition : empirical findings, theoretical considerations, and crosslinguistic comparisons /

Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics. With regard to previous research, the book f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clahsen, Harald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1996.
Colección:Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 14.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The optional-infinitive stage in child English / Tony Harris & Ken Wexler
  • Towards a structure-building model of acquisition / Andrew Radford
  • The underspecification of functional categories in early grammar / Nina Hyams
  • Lexical learning in early syntactic development / Harald Clahsen, Sonja Eisenbeiss & Martina Penke
  • Strong continuity, parameter setting, and the trigger hierarchy : on the acquisition of the DP in Bernese Swiss German and High German / Zvi Penner & Jürgen Weissenborn
  • Subject-verb and object-verb agreement in early Basque / Jürgen M. Meisel & Maria-Jose Ezeizabarrena
  • Acquisition of Italian interrogatives / Maria Teresa Guasti
  • Root infinitives, clitics, and truncated structures / Liliane Haegeman
  • On the acquisition of subject and object clitics in French / Cornelia Hamann, Luigi Rizzi & Uli H. Frauenfelder
  • Clitics in L2 French / Lydia White
  • The initial hypothesis of syntax : a minimalist perspective on language acquisition and attrition / Christer Platzack
  • The role of merger theory and formal features in acquisition / Thomas Roeper
  • Now, hang on a minute : some reflections on emerging orthodoxies / Martin Atkinson.