| Description |
viii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Blackwell textbooks in linguistics ; 3 |
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Blackwell textbooks in linguistics ; 3
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Linguistics and Language Acquisition -- 1.1. Knowledge of Language: Competence and Performance -- 1.2. Types of Linguistic Knowledge -- 1.3. The Projection Problem -- 1.4. Universal Grammar -- 1.5. Outline -- 2. Phonological Acquisition -- 2.1. Speech Sounds -- 2.1.1. How Sounds are Made -- 2.1.2. Features -- 2.2. Phonetics, Phonology and Language Variation -- 2.3. Categorical Perception in Adults and Infants -- 2.4. Early Speech Sounds -- 2.5. Feature Acquisition -- 2.6. Child Phonologies -- 2.6.1. Segmental Rules -- 2.6.2. Suprasegmentals -- 2.7. Problems and Ideas -- 2.8. Summary and Conclusions -- 3. Morphological Development and Innovation -- 3.1. Types of Morphological Rules -- 3.2. A Morphological Model -- 3.3. Children's Knowledge of Level Ordering -- 3.4. Rule Use and Innovation -- 3.5. Problems and Unknowns -- 3.6. A Cross-Linguistic Perspective -- 3.7. Summary and Conclusions -- 4. The Acquisition of Syntax -- 4.1. Syntactic Structures and Universal Grammar -- 4.1.1. Basic Syntax -- 4.1.2. Levels of Representation -- 4.1.3. Universal Grammar: Principles and Parameters -- 4.1.4. Modules of Government Binding Theory -- 4.1.5. Government Binding Theory and the Acquisition of Syntax -- 4.2. The Outer Course of Development -- 4.3. Early Syntax -- 4.3.1. Early Phrase Structure -- 4.3.2. Subjectless Sentences -- 4.4. Syntax in Pre-School Years -- 4.4.1. Children's Knowledge Of the Binding Theory -- 4.4.2. Bounding Theory and the Development of Movement -- 4.4.3. Children's Grammar of Control -- 4.4.4. Summary -- 4.5. Syntactic Development after Age Six -- 4.6. Syntactic Development: Some Popular Ideas Reconsidered -- 4.6.1. 'semantics First' -- 4.6.2. 'syntax is Late' -- 4.7. Summary and Conclusions -- 5. Further Aspects of Syntactic and Semantic Development -- 5.1. The Auxiliary System of English -- 5.1.1. Auxiliary Verbs and Morphological Endings -- 5.1.2. Negation and "Do" Support' -- 5.1.3. A Syntactic Analysis -- 5.2. The Acquisition of Auxiliary Systems: Syntax -- 5.3. The Acquisition of Negation -- 5.4. An Aside on Developmental Orders and Individual Development -- 5.5. The Acquisition of Modality, Tense and Aspect -- 5.5.1. Modality -- 5.5.2. Tense and Aspect -- 5.6. The Development of Word Meanings -- 5.6.1. Word Meanings -- 5.6.2. The Semantic Feature Hypothesis -- 5.6.3. Challenges to the Semantic Feature Hypothesis -- 5.7. Quantification and Logical Form -- 5.8. Summary and Conclusions -- 6. Cognition, Environment and Language Learning -- 6.1. Innateness -- 6.2. Input and Errors -- 6.3. The Role of Universal Grammar in Language Development -- 6.4. Learnability and Acquisition Principles -- 6.4.1. Subjacency and Degree-n Learnability -- 6.4.2. The Subset Principle -- 6.5. Summary: Components of a Learning Model -- 6.6. Some Questions and Problems in Acquisition Theory -- 6.6.1. Markedness and Orders of Acquisition -- 6.6.2. Continuity or Maturation? -- 6.6.3. Parameter Setting vs. Hypothesis Testing -- 6.7. The Limits of the Linguistic Model: Lexical Learning -- 6.8. Motherese -- 6.9. Language Development and Cognitive Development -- 6.9.1. Specificity and the Logic of Learning -- 6.9.2. Constructivism and Developmental Orders -- 6.10. Summary and Conclusions -- 7. Performance Development -- 7.1. Estimating Competence -- 7.2. Adult Processing Mechanisms -- 7.2.1. A Model -- 7.2.2. Grammar vs. General Knowledge and Strategies -- 7.2.3. Words-to-Message Processing -- 7.3. Children's Sentence Processing -- 7.3.1. On-line Computation of Syntactic Structure -- 7.3.2. Strategies and Children's Comprehension -- 7.3.3. Resolution Strategies -- 7.4. Discourse Integration -- 7.5. Summary and Conclusions |
| Analysis |
Children Language Learning |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [201]-219 |
| Subject |
Generative grammar.
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Language acquisition.
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| LC no. |
90024628 |
| ISBN |
0631173854 (alk. paper) |
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0631173862 (alk. paper) |
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