| Description |
1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Outstanding dissertations in linguistics |
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Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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| Contents |
Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 -- Language and Acquisition -- chapter 2 -- Entailment and Polarity Phenomena in Child Language -- chapter 3 -- The Structure of Child Language -- chapter 4 -- Asymmetries of Child Language -- chapter 5 -- Structure and Beyond -- chapter 6 -- The Structure of Universal Asymmetry and Beyond |
| Summary |
The new experimental evidence presented in The Ups and Downs of Child Language shows that it is possible to extend research on child language to children's semantic competence, adopting the same theoretical framework that has proven useful to the study of children's syntactic competence. Andrea Gualmini investigates the role of entailment relations for child language in a series of interconnected experiments assessing children's negation and their interpretation of words like or, every, and some. Comparing his study to other models of language acquisition and characterizing the observed differ |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Language acquisition.
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Language awareness in children.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
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Language acquisition
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Language awareness in children
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203499964 |
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9780203499962 |
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9781135875374 |
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1135875375 |
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9781135875329 |
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1135875324 |
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9781135875367 |
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1135875367 |
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9780415512947 |
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0415512948 |
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1280281510 |
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9781280281518 |
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9786610281510 |
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6610281513 |
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