Language acquisition
Subtitle: the growth of grammar
By: Maria Teresa Guasti.
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
Subjects: Language acquisition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-466) and index.
"A Bradford book."
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1; title: Basic Concepts I; title: Introduction 1; title: 1.1 Reflections on the Course of Language Acquisition 1; title: 1.2 The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition 5; title: 1.3 The Notion of Grammar 5; title: 1.4 Constraints 8; title: 1.5 Where Does Knowledge of Language Come From? 10; title: 1.6 The Critical Period 20; title: Chapter 2; title: First Steps into Language 23; title: Introduction 23; title: 2.1 The Quest for the Native Language 24; title: 2.2 Learning the Phonemic Contrasts of the Native Language 40; title: 2.3 Infants' Speech Production 47; title: 2.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks 52; title: Chapter 3; title: Acquisition of the Lexicon 55; title: Introduction 55; title: 3.1 Why Finding Words Is a Problem 56; title: 3.2 Why Acquiring the Meaning of Words Is a Problem 74; title: 3.3 Acquisition of Verbs 80; title: 3.4 Bootstrapping of Syntax 90; title: 3.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 96; title: Chapter 4; title: The Emergence of Syntax 101; title: Introduction 101; title: 4.1 Word Order in Children's Productions 101; title: 4.2 The Structure of Early Clauses 103; title: 4.3 The Subject Agreement Relation 120; title: 4.4 Root Infinitives 128; title: 4.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 146; title: Chapter 5; title: Null Subjects in Early Languages 151; title: Introduction 15; title: 5.1 Parametric Accounts of Early Null Subjects 152; title: 5.2 Root Null Subjects 160; title: 5.3 Performance Accounts 179; title: 5.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks 183; title: Chapter 6; title: Acquisition of Wh-Movement 187; title: Introduction 187; title: 6.1 Question Formation in Early Systems 188; title: 6.2 Auxless Questions in Early English 202; title: 6.3 Long-Distance Wh-Movement 209; title: 6.4 Relative Clauses 220; title: 6.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 240; title: Chapter 7; title: Acquisition of NP-Movement 245; title: Introduction 245; title: 7.1 Passive Constructions in Adult and Child Grammar 246; title: 7.2 A Maturational Account of Early Passive Constructions 252; title: 7.3 Problems with the Maturational Account 254; title: 7.4 New Findings about Early Passives 260; title: 7.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 268; title: Chapter 8; title: Acquisition of the Binding Principles 271; title: Introduction 271; title: 8.1 The Binding Theory 272; title: 8.2 Principle A 285; title: 8.3 Principle B 290; title: 8.4 Principle C 300; title: 8.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 308; title: Chapter 9; title: Aspects of the Acquisition of Quantification 313; title: Introduction 313; title: 9.1 Prerequisites for Handling Quantificational Structures 314; title: 9.2 The Structure of Quantified NPs and the Syntax-Semantics Mapping 316; title: 9.3 Children's Errors with Universal Quantification 329; title: 9.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks 343; title: Chapter 10; title: Acquisition of Control 347; title: Introduction 347; title: 10.1 Aspects of the Theory of Control 348; title: 10.2 The Structure-Changing Hypothesis 350; title: 10.3 The Maturation Iypothesis 356; title: 10.4 The Lexical-Syntactic Integration Hypothesis 365; title: 10.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 371; title: Chapter 11; title: Dissociation between Language and Other Cognitive Abilities 375; title: Introduction 375; title: 11.1 Impaired Language in Otherwise Normal Children: Specific Language; title: Impairment 376; title: 11.2 Approaches to Specific Language Impairment 378; title: 11.3 Relatively Intact Language in an Otherwise Impaired System: Williams; title: Syndrome 398; title: 11.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks 403; title: Appendix A: Normal or Gaussian Distribution 405; title: Appendix B: Tests to Assess Specific Language Impairment 406; title: Notes 409; title: Glossary 423; title: References 429; title: Index 467.