The Acquisition Of Syntactic Knowledge
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Author | : Robert C. Berwick |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780262022262 |
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The computer model. Computation and language acquisition. The acquisition model. Learning phrase structure. Learning transformations. A theory of acquisition. Acquisition complexity. Learning theory: applications. Locality principles and acquisition.
Author | : Barbara C. Lust |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2006-09-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139459279 |
Download Child Language Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we have essentially mastered by the age of three, and with incredible ease and speed, despite the complexity of the task. This accessible textbook introduces the field of child language acquisition, exploring language development from birth. Setting out the key theoretical debates, it considers questions such as what characteristics of the human mind make it possible to acquire language; how far acquisition is biologically programmed and how far it is influenced by our environment; what makes second language learning (in adulthood) different from first language acquisition; and whether the specific stages in language development are universal across languages. Clear and comprehensive, it is set to become a key text for all courses in child language acquisition, within linguistics, developmental psychology and cognitive science.
Author | : Robert Cregar Berwick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 902 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Computational linguistics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Teresa Satterfield |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1461552591 |
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Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge motivates a more formal approach in theoretical linguistics by investigating the parameters of syntactic variation and simultaneous acquisition of multiple languages. Taking the behavior of the Null Subject Parameter (NSP) across languages as an illustration, the book raises important questions concerning the adequacy of standard parameter-setting models in the face of compelling evidence from both mono- and bilingual child speech data. Teresa Satterfield argues convincingly that so-called `universal' premises guiding well-known parametric approaches greatly complicate attempts to construct an economical bilingual analysis. Further, she demonstrates the compatibility of more recent formulations in linguistic theory (i.e. the Minimalist Program) and studies on language learnability (Clark, 1992, 1993; Kapur, 1994) which present the view that while initially convincing, standard parameter models are potentially costly and less than effective in terms of monolinguals as well. Using Clark's application of the Genetic Algorithm as a point of departure, Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge describes a number of computational simulations. These simulations not only demonstrate the robustness of the GA-as-language-learner, they offer a more detailed account of the parameter-setting task confronting the bilingual child while also making more precise predictions regarding the process of syntactic knowledge.
Author | : Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2020-05-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3112316002 |
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Author | : A.E. Pierce |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9401125740 |
Download Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The theory of language acquisition is a young but increasingly active field. Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory presents one of the first detailed studies of comparative syntax acquisition. It is informed by the view that linguists and acquisitionists are essentially working on the same problem, that of explaining grammar learnability. The author takes cross-linguistic data from child language as evidence for recent proposals in syntactic theory. Developments in the structure of children's sentences during the first few years of life are traced to changes in the setting of specific grammatical parameters. Some surprising differences between the early child grammars of French and English are uncovered, differences that can only be explained on the basis of subtle distinctions in inflectional structure. This motivates the author's claim that functional or nonthematic categories are represented in the grammars of very young children. The book also explores the relationship between acquisition and diachronic change in French and English. It is argued that findings in acquisition, when viewed from a parameter setting perspective, provide answers to important questions arising in the study of language change. The book promises to be of interest to all those involved in the formal, psychological or historical study of linguistic knowledge.
Author | : Bill VanPatten |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108486665 |
Download Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An introduction to the key questions that drive the field of L2 acquisition research, including its historical foundations.
Author | : Susan Braidi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2020-11-25 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 100016148X |
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This book deals with the questions asked about the L2 acquisition process within different research paradigms, examines the results found in each approach, and evaluates the contributions of each to our understanding of L2 acquisition of syntax and to possible implications for L2 instruction.
Author | : Eva M. Fernández |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 2020-10-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1119096529 |
Download The Handbook of Psycholinguistics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Incorporating approaches from linguistics and psychology, The Handbook of Psycholinguistics explores language processing and language acquisition from an array of perspectives and features cutting edge research from cognitive science, neuroscience, and other related fields. The Handbook provides readers with a comprehensive review of the current state of the field, with an emphasis on research trends most likely to determine the shape of psycholinguistics in the years ahead. The chapters are organized into three parts, corresponding to the major areas of psycholinguists: production, comprehension, and acquisition. The collection of chapters, written by a team of international scholars, incorporates multilingual populations and neurolinguistic dimensions. Each of the three sections also features an overview chapter in which readers are introduced to the different theoretical perspectives guiding research in the area covered in that section. Timely, comprehensive, and authoritative, The Handbook of Psycholinguistics is a valuable addition to the reference shelves of researchers in psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science, as well as advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in how language works in the human mind and how language is acquired.
Author | : Misha Becker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139915886 |
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This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please. The answer lies in animacy: taking the premise that subjects are animate, the book argues that children can exploit the occurrence of an inanimate subject as a cue to a non-canonical structure, in which that subject is displaced (the book is easy/*eager to read). The author uses evidence from a range of linguistic subfields, including syntactic theory, typology, language processing, conceptual development, language acquisition, and computational modeling, exposing readers to these different kinds of data in an accessible way. The theoretical claims of the book expand the well-known hypotheses of syntactic and semantic bootstrapping, resulting in greater coverage of the core principles of language acquisition. This is a must-read for researchers in language acquisition, syntax, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics.