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Author: Sergio Baauw
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1136711333
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book discusses to what extent errors young children make with their interpretation of definite articles and pronouns are due to their immature pragmatic skills, and to what extent incomplete syntactic development plays a role.
Author: Sergio Baauw
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1136711406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book discusses to what extent errors young children make with their interpretation of definite articles and pronouns are due to their immature pragmatic skills, and to what extent incomplete syntactic development plays a role.
Author: Susan Foster-Cohen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-07-16
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 023024078X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a snapshot of the field of language acquisition at the beginning of the 21st Century. It represents the multiplicity of approaches that characterize the field and provides a review of current topics and debates, as well as addressing some of the connections between sub-fields and possible future directions for research.
Author: Edward Gibson
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 0262015129
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book brings together contributions by prominent researchers in the fields of language processing and language acquisition on topics of common interest: how people refer to objects in the world, how people comprehend such referential expressions, and how children acquire the ability to refer and to understand reference.
Author: Jill de Villiers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-08-27
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9400716885
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that promise has been fulfilled, exploring core concepts in acquisition theory, including notions of the initial state, parameters, triggering theory, the role of competition and frequency, and many others, across a variety of syntactic topics that have formed the central domains of investigation and debate. These topics are treated from the unique perspective of central actors in each domain who have helped shape the research agenda. The authors have presented a summary of the data, the theories under discussion, and their own best assessments of where each domain stands. Providing as well the agenda for future work in the field showing both particular needs and general directions that should be pursued in the coming decades.
Author: Yan-kit Ingrid Leung
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1847691315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume presents studies which approach the relatively new field of third language (L3) acquisition from the generative linguistic perspective. It aims to bring together researchers who are interested in L3 acquisition and who are at the same time working within the generative framework i.e. Chomsky's Universal Grammar (UG) approach to language acquisition. A total of nine contributions are included, reporting research on L3 involving different combinations of source/target languages and investigating various UG-related properties.
Author: Zhaohong Han
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1847690130
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a collection of 11 analytical and empirical studies on the process of second language acquisition, probing a wide array of issues, from transfer appropriate processing to L2 default processing strategies, among hearing or deaf learners of a variety of target languages.
Author: José M. Brucart
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-01-29
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0199553262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book leading scholars examine the intricate ways in which Merge and formal features, two factors in the Minimalist Program, interact to generate well-formed derivations in natural language. The authors combine grammatical theory with the analysis of data drawn from a wide range of languages.
Author: Ana Castro
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2010-08-11
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 144382450X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edited collection contains 43 papers presented at the GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) conference 2009, held in Lisbon, Portugal. The volume contains a very wide and rich range of topics, reflecting the immense quality of the event: the acquisition of languages from different families is studied; comparisons between acquisition of L1, L2 and atypical language development are made; all areas of language development are explored (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, pragmatics and interactions between components). The proceedings of GALA are an invaluable reference for those interested in Language Acquisition, Language Development and Child Language.
Author: Johan Rooryck
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-07-28
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0191619507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the distribution and interpretation of anaphors and pronouns. Through a detailed analysis of simplex and complex anaphors in Dutch and English, as well as other Romance and Germanic languages, the authors show that the relationship between an anaphor and its antecedent can be captured in terms of general Minimalist principles.
