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1 online resource (391 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Table of Contents for Volume 2; General Introduction: Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives; Volume 1 Introduction: Constraining Structural Variation and the Acquisition Problem; I SYNTACTIC FOUNDATIONS: PHRASE STRUCTURE PRINCIPLES AND PARAMETERS; 1 More on Chinese Word Order and Parametric Theory; 2 Negative Heads and Negative Operators: The NEG Criterion; 3 Constraints on Argument Structure; II FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES AND PHRASE STRUCTURE IN THE INITIAL STATE |
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HEADS AND PROJECTIONS IN MORPHOSYNTAX4 Minimal Projection and Clause Structure; 5 Functional Projection of CP and Phrase Structure Parameterization: An Argument for the Strong Continuity Hypothesis; 6 On the Underspecification of Functional Categories in Early Grammars; 7 Tense and Agreement Variability in Child Grammars of English; 8 Case-Marking Particles and Phrase Structure in Early Japanese Acquisition; 9 Some Remarks on the Interaction of Case and Word Order in Turkish: Implications for Acquisition; 10 What You See Isn't Always What You Get; THE V-2 DEBATE |
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11 Constraining the Child's Grammar: Local Well-Formedness in the Development of Verb Movement in German and French12 Underspecification, Functional Projections, and Parameter Setting; 13 In Defense of the Strong Continuity Account of the Acquisition of Verb-Second; III LEARNABILITY; 14 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words, But That's the Problem: The Role of Syntax in Vocabulary Acquisition; 15 Syntactic Bootstrapping and the Acquisition of Noun Meanings: The Mass-Count Issue |
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16 Mapping from the Initial State to the Final State: The Separation of Universal Principles and Language-Specific PrinciplesAuthor Index; Subject Index; Language Index |
| Summary |
Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different languages, carefully analyzed by a wide range of international scholars. The issues surrounding cross-linguistic variation in "Heads, Projections, and Learnability" (Volume 1) and in "Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability" (Volume 2) are arguably the most fundamental in UG. How can principles of grammar be learned by general learning theory? What is biologically programmed in the human species in order to guarantee their learnability? What is the true linguistic representation for these areas of language knowledge? What universals exist across languages? The two volumes summarize the most critical current proposals in each area, and offer both theoretical and empirical evidence bearing on them. Research on first language acquisition and formal learnability theory is placed at the center of debates relative to linguistic theory in each area. The convergence of research across several different disciplines -- linguistics, developmental psychology, and computer science -- represented in these volumes provides a paradigm example of cognitive science |
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Language acquisition -- Congresses
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses
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Almeida Jacqueline Toribio.
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Barbara Lust.
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Claire Foley.
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C.-T. James Huang.
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Edward J. Rubin.
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Gennaro Chierchia.
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Gita Martohardjono.
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Henry Gleitman.
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Isabella Barbier.
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John Whitman.
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Katharina Boser.
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Kenneth Hale.
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Lila R. Gleitman.
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Liliane Haegeman.
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Lynn Santelmann.
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Margarita SuEr.
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Samuel Jay Keyser.
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Shyam Kapur.
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Suzanne Flynn.
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Zelmira NuEz Del Prado.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Language acquisition
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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Su¤er, Margarita
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Whitman, John
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Lust, (Vol. 2)Barbara
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Hermon, Gabriella
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| ISBN |
9781317728849 |
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131772884X |
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