Search Results - "Syntax"

The syntax of nonsententials multidisciplinary perspectives /

Subjects: “…Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax.…”
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The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages

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Becoming human from pointing gestures to syntax / by Bejarano, Teresa

Table of Contents: “…The origin of prediction and syntax -- section 5. Pregrammatical, theme-rheme syntax : revisiting Frege and Vygotsky -- section 6. …”
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Functional categories in language acquisition self-organization of a dynamical system / by Hohenberger, Annette

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A feature-based syntax of functional categories the structure, acquisition, and specific impairment of functional systems / by Hegarty, Michael, 1959-

Subjects: “…Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax.…”
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Language acquisition studies in generative grammar papers in honor of Kenneth Wexler from the 1991 GLOW workshops /

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The acquisition of direct object scrambling and clitic placement syntax and pragmatics / by Schaeffer, Jeannette C.

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Minimal answers ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese / by Santos, Ana Lúcia

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Factivity its nature and acquisition / by Schulz, Petra

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The acquisition of French the development of inflectional morphology and syntax in L1 acquisition, bilingualism, and L2 acquisition / by Prévost, Philippe, 1966-

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The genesis of syntactic complexity diachrony, ontogeny, neuro-cognition, evolution / by Givón, Talmy, 1936-

Subjects: “…Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax.…”
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From language to discourse : selected papers of linguistic sharing forum /

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Creole and dialect continua standard acquisition processes in Belize and China (PRC) / by Escure, Geneviève

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The acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners by Baten, Kristof

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Music, language, and the brain by Patel, Aniruddh D.

Table of Contents: “…Sound elements: pitch and timbre -- Rhythm -- Melody -- Syntax -- Meaning -- Evolution.…”
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Diachronic studies on information structure language acquisition and change /

Table of Contents: “…The role of information structure in language change : introductory remarks / Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie Lühr -- Information Structure, constituent order, and case in Warihío / Rolando Féliz Armendáriz -- The information structure of OVS in Vedic / Carlotta Viti -- Information packaging and the rise of clitic doubling in the history of Spanish / Christoph Gabriel & Esther Rinke -- Cue-based acquisition and information structure drift in diachronic language development / Marit Westergaard -- Discourse and syntax in linguistic change : decline of postverbal topical subjects in Serbo-Croat / Dejan Mati -- Prosody, information structure and word order changes in Portuguese / Kristin Gunn Eide -- The development of V-to-C movement in the West Germanic and romance languages / Melanie Wratil -- Evidence for two types of focus positions in Old High German / Svetlana Petrova & Roland Hinterhölzl.…”
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Focus on phonological acquisition

Table of Contents: “…Perception and production in learning to talk / Henning Wode -- Why syntax is different : a UG approach to language disorders in children / Alison Henry -- The role of feature geometry in the development of phonemic contrasts / Cindy Brown & John Matthews -- Consonant harmony in child language / Heather Goad -- Syllable structure parameters and the acquisition of affricates / Conxita Lleó & Michael Prinz -- The non-isomorphism of phonological and morphological structure / S.J. …”
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Language acquisition the growth of grammar / by Guasti, Maria Teresa

Table of Contents: “…10 -- 1.6 The Critical Period 20 -- Chapter 2 -- First Steps into Language 23 -- Introduction 23 -- 2.1 The Quest for the Native Language 24 -- 2.2 Learning the Phonemic Contrasts of the Native Language 40 -- 2.3 Infants' Speech Production 47 -- 2.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks 52 -- Chapter 3 -- Acquisition of the Lexicon 55 -- Introduction 55 -- 3.1 Why Finding Words Is a Problem 56 -- 3.2 Why Acquiring the Meaning of Words Is a Problem 74 -- 3.3 Acquisition of Verbs 80 -- 3.4 Bootstrapping of Syntax 90 -- 3.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 96 -- Chapter 4 -- The Emergence of Syntax 101 -- Introduction 101 -- 4.1 Word Order in Children's Productions 101 -- 4.2 The Structure of Early Clauses 103 -- 4.3 The Subject Agreement Relation 120 -- 4.4 Root Infinitives 128 -- 4.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 146 -- Chapter 5 -- Null Subjects in Early Languages 151 -- Introduction 15 -- 5.1 Parametric Accounts of Early Null Subjects 152 -- 5.2 Root Null Subjects 160 -- 5.3 Performance Accounts 179 -- 5.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks 183 -- Chapter 6 -- Acquisition of Wh-Movement 187 -- Introduction 187 -- 6.1 Question Formation in Early Systems 188 -- 6.2 Auxless Questions in Early English 202 -- 6.3 Long-Distance Wh-Movement 209 -- 6.4 Relative Clauses 220 -- 6.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 240 -- Chapter 7 -- Acquisition of NP-Movement 245 -- Introduction 245 -- 7.1 Passive Constructions in Adult and Child Grammar 246 -- 7.2 A Maturational Account of Early Passive Constructions 252 -- 7.3 Problems with the Maturational Account 254 -- 7.4 New Findings about Early Passives 260 -- 7.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 268 -- Chapter 8 -- Acquisition of the Binding Principles 271 -- Introduction 271 -- 8.1 The Binding Theory 272 -- 8.2 Principle A 285 -- 8.3 Principle B 290 -- 8.4 Principle C 300 -- 8.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 308 -- Chapter 9 -- Aspects of the Acquisition of Quantification 313 -- Introduction 313 -- 9.1 Prerequisites for Handling Quantificational Structures 314 -- 9.2 The Structure of Quantified NPs and the Syntax-Semantics Mapping 316 -- 9.3 Children's Errors with Universal Quantification 329 -- 9.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks 343 -- Chapter 10 -- Acquisition of Control 347 -- Introduction 347 -- 10.1 Aspects of the Theory of Control 348 -- 10.2 The Structure-Changing Hypothesis 350 -- 10.3 The Maturation Iypothesis 356 -- 10.4 The Lexical-Syntactic Integration Hypothesis 365 -- 10.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 371 -- Chapter 11 -- Dissociation between Language and Other Cognitive Abilities 375 -- Introduction 375 -- 11.1 Impaired Language in Otherwise Normal Children: Specific Language -- Impairment 376 -- 11.2 Approaches to Specific Language Impairment 378 -- 11.3 Relatively Intact Language in an Otherwise Impaired System: Williams -- Syndrome 398 -- 11.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks 403 -- Appendix A: Normal or Gaussian Distribution 405 -- Appendix B: Tests to Assess Specific Language Impairment 406 -- Notes 409 -- Glossary 423 -- References 429 -- Index 467.…”
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Functional categories in learner language

Table of Contents: “…A picture selection study with native speakers and adult learners of German / Sarah Schimke -- Light verbs and the acquisition of finiteness and negation in Dutch as a second language / Josje Verhagen -- Finiteness in children with SLI: a functional approach / Anke Jolink -- Functional and modal elements in child and adult Russian / Natalia Gagarina -- How much (morpho-)syntax is needed to express finiteness? / Karen Ferret and Clive Perdue -- Relating Italian articles and clitic object pronouns in bilingual children acquiring Italian and German / Tanja Kupisch and Natascha Müller -- Index.…”
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