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This title offers a debate concerning real time acquisition of grammar in first language acquisition theory. It combines quantitative observations of object placement in Dutch and Italian child language with an analysis using the modularity hypothesis. Real time development is explained by the interaction between two different modules of language, namely syntax and pragmatics.

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Author:   Jeannette Schaeffer (Ben Gurion University of Negev)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   22
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9789027224903

ISBN 10:   9027224900
Pages:   187
Publication Date:   13 November 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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An excellent discussion of the syntax and pragmatics involved in children's acquisition of direct object scrambling (in Dutch) and direct object clitic placement (in Italian), two phenomena, scrambling and cliticization, that Schaeffer relates to one another. -- Kleanthes Grohmann, University of Cypres, in Language Vol.80(4), 2005

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