An Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition

, by Crain, Stephen; Lillo-Martin, Diane

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ISBN: 9780631195368 | 063119536X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/22/1999

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Written by two of the foremost researchers in the field, the book benefits from their insight into conceptual issues, their understanding of experimentation, and their own pioneering research.

Stephen Crain is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has written over sixty articles and is currently Associate Editor of two major journals in the field: Language Acquisition and Linguistics and Philosophy.

Diane Lillo-Martin is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. She is the author of Language and Cognition: The View from Sign Language and Deafness (with Marschauk, Siple, Campbell, and Everhart, 1997) and Universal Grammar and American Sign Language: Setting the Null Argument Parameters, (1991).

Linguistic Knowledge: Introduction
Introduction to Language Acquisition
Knowledge in the Absence of Experience
Stages of Language Acquisition
Why Language Does Not Have to Be Taught
Dispelling a Common-Sense Account
Universal Grammar
The Modularity Hypothesis
Constituent Structure: Introduction
Phrase Structure
Phrase Structure Rules and X-Theory
Setting the X Parameters
Phrasal Categories
Ambiguity and Productivity
Children's Knowledge of Phrase Structures
Constraints on Reference
Children's Knowledge of Constraints: Backwards Anaphora
Transformational Syntax: Introduction
A Transformation Generating Yes/No Questions
Children's Adherence to Structure Dependence
WH-Movement
Crosslinguistic Aspects of WH-Questions
The Acquisition of WH-Questions
Successive Cyclic Movement
Successful Cyclic Movement
A Constraint on Contraction
Acquisition of Wanna Contraction
Principle C in WH-Questions
Acquisition of Strong Crossover
Universal Grammar in Visual Modality: Introduction
The Structure of American Sign Language
The Acquisition of ASL
The Structure and Acquisition of WH-Questions in ASL
Parameter Setting
Modularity and Modality
Semantics and Philosophy of Language: Introduction
Theories of Meaning
Truth Conditional Semantics
Compositionality I
Compositionality II
Intentional Semantics
Learnability of Syntax and Semantics
Acquisition of NPs with Modifiers
Relative Clauses
Universal Quantification
References
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An Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition

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