Language and the learning curve
Subtitle: a new theory of syntactic development
By: Anat Ninio.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780199299829; 9780199299812
Subjects: Language acquisition; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Valency; title: Linguistic approaches to valency and syntactic structure; title: Implication for acquisition : syntax is simple; title: Developmental evidence : the earliest word combinations are syntactic mergers; title: Conclusions: children learn to merge two words according to their valency; title: The learning curve; title: The learning curve in cognitive psychology; title: Implication for acquisition : syntax should transfer right away; title: Developmental evidence : learning curves and generalizations in early syntax; title: Conclusions: lexical specific syntactic frames facilitate others; title: Lexicalism; title: The linguistic basis to lexicalism; title: Implication for acquisition : no abstract schema formation; title: Developmental evidence : no change in the form of syntactic schemas; title: Conclusions: children learn a lexicalist syntax; title: Similarity; title: Similarity for transfer and generalization; title: Implication for acquisition : no role for semantic linking in learning syntax; title: Developmental evidence : no semantic effects in generalization and transfer; title: Conclusions: children utilize similarity of form to organize the process of acquisition; title: The growth of syntax; title: The language web; title: Implication for acquisition : learning means linking to the network; title: Developmental evidence : children recreate the global features of the maternal network; title: Conclusions: children join the language network