| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Series |
Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics |
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Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Original Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 the Universal Asymmetry and Beyond; Appendix; References; Index of Names; Index of Topics |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Language awareness in children.
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Language acquisition.
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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 |
9781135875374 |
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1135875375 |
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