Language Acquistion : The Growth of Grammar

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Guasti, Maria Teresa 저자(글)

MIT · 2004년 01월 30일

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This text provides a comprehensive introduction to current thinking on language acquisition. Following an introductory chapter that discusses the foundations of linguistic inquiry, the book covers the acquisition of specific aspects of language from birth to about age 6. Topics include the language abilities of newborns, the acquisition of phonological properties of language, the lexicon, syntax, pronoun and sentence interpretation, control structures, specific language impairments, and the relationship between language and other cognitive functions. At the conclusion of each chapter are a summary of the material covered, a list of keywords, study questions, and exercises. The book, which adopts the perspective of Chomskyan Universal Generative Grammar throughout, assumes a familiarity with basic concepts of linguistic theory.

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저자(글) Guasti, Maria Teresa

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• Preface
  Acknowledgments
  Abbreviations
  Basic Concepts	p. 1
  Reflections on the Course of Language Acquisition	p. 1
  The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition	p. 5
  The Notion of Grammar	p. 5
  Constraints	p. 8
  Where Does Knowledge of Language Come From?	p. 10
  The Critical Period	p. 20
  First Steps into Language	p. 23
  The Quest for the Native Language	p. 24
  Learning the Phonemic Contrasts of the Native Language	p. 40
  Infants' Speech Production	p. 47
  Summary and Concluding Remarks	p. 52
  Acquisition of the Lexicon	p. 55
  Why Finding Words Is a Problem	p. 56
  Why Acquiring the Meaning of Words Is a Problem	p. 74
  Acquisition of Verbs	p. 80
  Bootstrapping of Syntax	p. 90
  Summary and Concluding Remarks	p. 96
  The Emergence of Syntax	p. 101
  Word Order in Children's Productions	p. 101
  The Structure of Early Clauses	p. 103
  The Subject Agreement Relation	p. 120
  Root Infinitives	p. 128
  Summary and Concluding Remarks	p. 146
  Null Subjects in Early Languages	p. 151
  Parametric Accounts of Early Null Subjects	p. 152
  Root Null Subjects	p. 160
  Performance Accounts	p. 179
  Summary and Concluding Remarks	p. 183
  Acquisition of Wh-Movement	p. 187
  Question Formation in Early Systems	p. 188
  Auxless Questions in Early English	p. 202
  Long-Distance Wh-Movement	p. 209
  Relative Clauses	p. 220
  Summary and Concluding Remarks	p. 240
  Acquisition of NP-Movement	p. 245
  Passive Constructions in Adult and Child Grammar	p. 246
  A Maturational Account of Early Passive Constructions	p. 252
  Problems with the Maturational Account	p. 254
  New Findings about Early Passives	p. 260
  Summary and Concluding Remarks	p. 268
  Acquisition of the Binding Principles	p. 271
  The Binding Theory	p. 272
  Principle A	p. 285
  Principle B	p. 290
  Principle C	p. 300
  Summary and Concluding Remarks	p. 308
  Aspects of the Acquisition of Quantification	p. 313
  Prerequisities for Handling Quantificational Structures	p. 314
  The Structure of Quantified NPs and the Syntax-Semantics Mapping	p. 316
  Children's Errors with Universal Quantification	p. 329
  Summary and Concluding Remarks	p. 343
  Acquisition of Control	p. 347
  Aspects of the Theory of Control	p. 348
  The Structure-Changing Hypothesis	p. 350
  The Maturation Hypothesis	p. 356
  The Lexical-Syntactic Integration Hypothesis	p. 365
  Summary and Concluding Remarks	p. 371
  Dissociation between Language and Other Cognitive Abilities	p. 375
  Impaired Language in Otherwise Normal Children: Specific Language Impairment	p. 376
  Approaches to Specific Language Impairment	p. 378
  Relatively Intact Language in an Otherwise Impaired System: Williams Syndrome	p. 398
  Summary and Concluding Remarks	p. 403
  Normal or Gaussian Distribution	p. 405
  Tests to Assess Specific Language Impairment	p. 406
  Notes	p. 409
  Glossary	p. 423
  References	p. 429
  Index	p. 467
  Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

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ISBN	9780262572200 ( 0262572206 )
발행(출시)일자	2004년 01월 30일
쪽수	490쪽
크기	177 * 226 mm