Bilingual selection of syntactic knowledge
Subtitle: extending the principles and parameters approach
By: Teresa Satterfield.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Language acquisition; Bilingualism; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax; Principles and parameters (Linguistics)
Description: "Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge motivates a more formal approach in theoretical linguistics by investigating the parameters of syntactic variation and simultaneous acquisition of multiple languages. Taking the behavior of the Null Subject Parameter (NSP) across languages as an illustration, the book raises important questions concerning the adequacy of standard parameter-setting models in the face of compelling evidence from both the mono- and bilingual child speech data."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-163) and index.