Child Language
Subtitle: The Parametric Approach (Oxford Linguistics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: July 13, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780199296699
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Learning; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Linguistics; Language acquisition; Principles and parameters (Linguistics)
Description: "This is a systematic presentation of the parametric approach to child language. Linguistic theory seeks to specify the range of grammars permitted by the human language faculty and thereby to specify the child's "hypothesis space" during language acquisition. Theories of language variation have central implications for the study of child language, and vice versa. Yet the acquisitional predictions of such theories are seldom tested against attested data. This book aims to redress this neglect. It considers the nature of the information the child must acquire according to the various linguistic theories. In doing so it sets out in detail the practical aspects of acquisitional research, addresses the challenges of working with children of different ages, and shows how the resulting data can be used to test theories of grammatical variation." "The book is written for scholars and students of child language acquisition in linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science. It will be a valuable reference for researchers in child language acquisition in all fields."--BOOK JACKET.