Language Acquisition and Linguistic TheorySusan L. Tavakolian Although the relevance of language-acquisition research to issues in linguistic theory has been recognized for some time, this is the first book to bring together contributions that focus entirely on the relationship between the two areas.In particular, it provides new data about child language that suggest ties between children's developing grammar and adult grammars, and proposes approaches to the study of child language that have testable hypotheses within a unified theoretical framework. Language-acquisition data are related to a wide variety of theoretical questions, including anaphoric interpretation, proposed universal constraints, the structure of the base, and structural analyses of complex sentences. In each case, links are established between children's developing grammars and the target adult grammar.Contents: "Introduction, " Thomas Roeper; "Language Acquisition Markedness, and Phrase Structure, " Edwin S. Williams; "A Lexical Approach to Language Acquisition, " Thomas Roeper, Steven Lapointe, Janet Bing, Susan L. Tavakolian; "The Acquisition of Structural Restrictions on Anaphora, " Lawrence Solan; "Constraints on Anaphora in Child Language: A Prediction for a Universal, " Barbara Lust; "Children's Interpretations of Sentences Containing Reciprocals, " Edward H. Matthei; "Children's Interpretation of Negation in Complex Sentences, " Marianne Phinney; "Children's Grammar of Complement-Subject Interpretation, " Helen Goodluck; "The Conjoined-Clause Analysis of Relative Clauses, " Susan L. Tavakolian; "A 'Little Linguist' Model of Syntax Learning, " Virginia Valian, Judith Winzemer, Anne Erreich. References, Index. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
ComplementSubject | 108 |
A Lexical Approach to Language Interpretation | 139 |
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6-year-olds adult grammar animacy backward anaphora backward pronominalization Bill c-command constraint child language children's grammar Chomsky collapse Comp complement type Complement-Subject Interpretation complex sentences condition conjoined conjoined-clause analysis conjunction reduction constructions coordination reduction coreference coreferential correct responses Dative Movement Dative Passive deletion device direct object directionality Eeyore embedded English errors evidence example experiment factive formulation forward pronominalization Goodluck grab the jewels hypotheses incorrect infinitival interaction interpretive rules Jackendoff John language acquisition learning left-branching linguistic theory linguistic universals Lust Maratsos markedness matrix sentence matrix subject matrix verb missing subject Negation in Complex negative node noun phrase null object control Occam's razor overgeneralization passivized datives percent predicted preposition pronoun proposed referent relative clauses Roeper semantic sentence types shown Solan SS relatives strategy subcategorization subcategorization frames subj surface structure syntactic syntax Tavakolian tences tense tion transformational transformational grammar universal grammar Valian wh-Movement