Generative perspectives on language acquisition
Subtitle: empirical findings, theoretical considerations, and crosslinguistic comparisons
By: edited by Harald Clahsen.
Contributors: Clahsen, Harald.
Series: Language acquisition & language disorders,; v. 14
Publisher: J. Benjamins
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
Subjects: Language acquisition -- Congresses.; Generative grammar -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Chiefly based on papers presented at a workshop held Mar. 18-20, 1994, University of Essex.
Table of contents: title: The optional-infinitive stage in child English / Tony Harris & Ken Wexler; title: Towards a structure-building model of acquisition / Andrew Radford; title: The underspecification of functional categories in early grammar / Nina Hyams; title: Lexical learning in early syntactic development / Harald Clahsen, Sonja Eisenbeiss & Martina Penke; title: Strong continuity, parameter setting, and the trigger hierarchy : on the acquisition of the DP in Bernese Swiss German and High German / Zvi Penner & Jürgen Weissenborn; title: Subject-verb and object-verb agreement in early Basque / Jürgen M. Meisel & Maria-Jose Ezeizabarrena; title: Acquisition of Italian interrogatives / Maria Teresa Guasti; title: Root infinitives, clitics, and truncated structures / Liliane Haegeman; title: On the acquisition of subject and object clitics in French / Cornelia Hamann, Luigi Rizzi & Uli H. Frauenfelder; title: Clitics in L2 French / Lydia White; title: The initial hypothesis of syntax : a minimalist perspective on language acquisition and attrition / Christer Platzack; title: The role of merger theory and formal features in acquisition / Thomas Roeper; title: Now, hang on a minute : some reflections on emerging orthodoxies / Martin Atkinson.