Language acquisition : the growth of grammar / Maria Teresa Guasti.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xiv, 474 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 026207222X
- 9780262072229
- 0262572206
- 9780262572200
- 401.93 21
- P118 .G83 2002
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| 401.93 GAR Learning to be literate : the development of spoken and written language / | 401.93 GLE The development of language / | 401.93 GOO Language acquisition : a linguistic introduction / | 401.93 GUA Language acquisition : the growth of grammar / | 401.93 HAL The language of early childhood / | 401.93 HAL The language of early childhood / | 401.93 HAL The language of early childhood / |
"A Bradford book.".
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-466) and index.
Ch. 1. Basic Concepts. 1.1. Reflections on the Course of Language Acquisition. 1.2. The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition. 1.3. The Notion of Grammar. 1.4. Constraints. 1.5. Where Does Knowledge of Language Come From? 1.6. The Critical Period -- Ch. 2. First Steps into Language. 2.1. The Quest for the Native Language. 2.2. Learning the Phonemic Contrasts of the Native Language. 2.3. Infants' Speech Production. 2.4. Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Ch. 3. Acquisition of the Lexicon. 3.1. Why Finding Words Is a Problem. 3.2. Why Acquiring the Meaning of Words Is a Problem. 3.3. Acquisition of Verbs. 3.4. Bootstrapping of Syntax. 3.5. Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Ch. 4. The Emergence of Syntax. 4.1. Word Order in Children's Productions. 4.2. The Structure of Early Clauses. 4.3. The Subject Agreement Relation. 4.4. Root Infinitives. 4.5. Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Ch. 5. Null Subjects in Early Languages. 5.1. Parametric Accounts of Early Null Subjects. 5.2. Root Null Subjects. 5.3. Performance Accounts. 5.4. Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Ch. 6. Acquisition of Wh-Movement. 6.1. Question Formation in Early Systems. 6.2. Auxless Questions in Early English. 6.3. Long-Distance Wh-Movement. 6.4. Relative Clauses. 6.5. Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Ch. 7. Acquisition of NP-Movement. 7.1. Passive Constructions in Adult and Child Grammar. 7.2. A Maturational Account of Early Passive Constructions. 7.3. Problems with the Maturational Account. 7.4. New Findings about Early Passives. 7.5. Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Ch. 8. Acquisition of the Binding Principles. 8.1. The Binding Theory. 8.2. Principle A. 8.3. Principle B. 8.4. Principle C. 8.5. Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Ch. 9. Aspects of the Acquisition of Quantification. 9.1. Prerequisities for Handling Quantificational Structures. 9.2. The Structure of Quantified NPs and the Syntax-Semantics Mapping. 9.3. Children's Errors with Universal Quantification. 9.4. Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Ch. 10. Acquisition of Control. 10.1. Aspects of the Theory of Control. 10.2. The Structure-Changing Hypothesis. 10.3. The Maturation Hypothesis. 10.4. The Lexical-Syntactic Integration Hypothesis. 10.5. Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Ch. 11. Dissociation between Language and Other Cognitive Abilities. 11.1. Impaired Language in Otherwise Normal Children: Specific Language Impairment. 11.2. Approaches to Specific Language Impairment. 11.3. Relatively Intact Language in an Otherwise Impaired System: Williams Syndrome. 11.4. Summary and Concluding Remarks. App. A. Normal or Gaussian Distribution -- App. B. Tests to Assess Specific Language Impairment.
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