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Author : Susan L. Tavakolian
Release : 1977
Genre : Children
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Book Synopsis Structural Principles in the Acquisition of Complex Sentences by : Susan L. Tavakolian
Download or read book Structural Principles in the Acquisition of Complex Sentences written by Susan L. Tavakolian. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Holger Diessel
Release : 2004-09-02
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Acquisition of Complex Sentences by : Holger Diessel
Download or read book The Acquisition of Complex Sentences written by Holger Diessel. This book was released on 2004-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive study of how children acquire complex sentences. Drawing on observational data from English-speaking children aged 2 to 5, Holger Diessel investigates the acquisition of infinitival and participial complement clauses, finite complement clauses, finite and nonfinite relative clauses, adverbial clauses, and coordinate clauses. His investigation shows that the development of complex sentences originates from simple non-embedded sentences and that two different developmental pathways can be distinguished: complex sentences including complement and relative clauses evolve from simple sentences that are gradually expanded to multiple-clause constructions, and complex sentences including adverbial and coordinate clauses develop from simple sentences that are integrated in a specific biclausal unit. He argues that the acquisition process is determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various complex sentences in the ambient language, the semantic and syntactic complexity of the emerging constructions, the communicative functions of complex sentences, and the social-cognitive development of the child.
Author : (Vol.1)Barbara Lust
Release : 2018-10-24
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 831/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition by : (Vol.1)Barbara Lust
Download or read book Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition written by (Vol.1)Barbara Lust. This book was released on 2018-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different languages, carefully analyzed by a wide range of international scholars. The issues surrounding cross-linguistic variation in "Heads, Projections, and Learnability" (Volume 1) and in "Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability" (Volume 2) are arguably the most fundamental in UG. How can principles of grammar be learned by general learning theory? What is biologically programmed in the human species in order to guarantee their learnability? What is the true linguistic representation for these areas of language knowledge? What universals exist across languages? The two volumes summarize the most critical current proposals in each area, and offer both theoretical and empirical evidence bearing on them. Research on first language acquisition and formal learnability theory is placed at the center of debates relative to linguistic theory in each area. The convergence of research across several different disciplines -- linguistics, developmental psychology, and computer science -- represented in these volumes provides a paradigm example of cognitive science.
Author : Stan A. Kuczaj
Release : 1982
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 002/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Language Development: Syntax and semantics by : Stan A. Kuczaj
Download or read book Language Development: Syntax and semantics written by Stan A. Kuczaj. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Edward A. Gibson
Release : 2011-03-25
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 729/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Processing and Acquisition of Reference by : Edward A. Gibson
Download or read book The Processing and Acquisition of Reference written by Edward A. Gibson. This book was released on 2011-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How people refer to objects in the world, how people comprehend reference, and how children acquire an understanding of and an ability to use reference. This volume 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. The contributors first discuss issues related to children's acquisition and processing of reference, then consider evidence of adults' processing of reference from eye-tracking methods (the visual-world paradigm) and from corpora and reading experiments. They go on to discuss such topics as how children resolve ambiguity, children's difficulty in understanding coreference, the use of eye movements to physical objects to measure the accessibility of different referents, the uses of probabilistic and pragmatic information in language comprehension, antecedent accessibility and salience in reference, and neuropsychological data from the event-related potential (ERP) recording literature.
