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Title Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar : Papers in Honor of Kenneth Wexler from the 1991 GLOW Workshops / edited by Teun Hoekstra, Bonnie D. Schwartz
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 401 pages) : illustrations
Series Language acquisition & language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 8
Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 8. 0925-0123
Contents Introduction : on the initial stages of language acquisition / Teun Hoekstra & Bonnie Schwartz -- VP, null arguments, and COMP projections / Nina Hyams -- Crosslinguistic evidence for functional projections in early child grammar / Vivian Deprez & Amy Pierce -- The seeds of structure : a syntactic analysis of the acquisition of case marking / Harald Clahsen, Sonja Eisenbeiss & Anne Vainikka -- From adjunct to head / Teun Hoekstra & Peter Jordens -- Early null subjects and root null subjects / Luigi Rizzi -- Asking questions without CPs? : on the acquisition of root wh-questions in Bernese Swiss German and Standard German / Zvi Penner -- Successful cyclic movement / Rosalind Thornton & Stephen Crain -- Early acquisition of scrambling in Japanese / Yukio Otsu -- Direct access to X'-theory : evidence from Korean and Turkish adults learning German / Anne Vainikka & Martha Young-Scholten -- Word order and nominative case in non-native language acquisition : a longitudinal study of (L1 Turkish) German interlanguage / Bonnie D. Schwartz & Rex A. Sprouse -- Optionality and the initial state in L2 development / Lynn Eubank
Summary This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying theme is the issue of the 'initial state' of grammatical knowledge: For native language, the important controversy is that between the Continuity approach, which holds that Universal Grammar is essentially constant throughout development, and the Maturation approach, which maintains that portions of UG are subject to mature
Notes Based on papers presented at workshops on syntactic acquisition organized as part of the 14th GLOW Conference which was held Mar. 1991, Leiden University
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Language acquisition.
Generative grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Language Development
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Language acquisition
Generative Transformationsgrammatik
Spracherwerb
Taalverwerving.
Generatieve grammatica.
Langage -- Acquisition.
Grammaire générative -- Congrès.
Syntaxe -- Congrès.
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Wexler, Kenneth.
Hoekstra, Teun.
Schwartz, Bonnie D.
GLOW Conference (14th : 1991 : Leiden University)
LC no. 93043090
ISBN 1556192444
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