Overview

This volume contains a collection of studies that survey recent research in developmental linguistics, illustrating the fruitful interaction between comparative syntax and language acquisition. The contributors each analyse a well defined range of acquisition data, aiming to derive them from primitive differences between child and adult grammar. The book covers cross-linguistic and cross-categorial phenomena, shedding light on major developments in this novel and rapidly growing field. Extensions to second language acquisition and neuropathology are also suggested.

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Author:   Marc-Ariel Friedemann ,  Luigi Rizzi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Longman
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780582328822

ISBN 10:   0582328829
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   18 October 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The acquisition of syntax - introduction, Marc-Ariel Friedemann and Luigi Rizzi; the acquisition of the DP in German child language, Sonja Eisenbeiss; early French postverbal subjects, Marc-Ariel Freidemann; split inflection in neurolinguistics, Na'ama Friedmann and Yosef Grodzinsky; an excursion into interrogatives in early English and Italian, Maria Teresa Guasti; adult null subjects in non pro-drop languages, Liliane Haegeman; the acquisition of constitutent questions and the requirements of interpretation, Cornelia Hamann; accounting for morphological variation in second language acquistion - truncation or missing inflection? Philippe Prevost and Lydia White; null subjects and root infinitives in child grammar of Grench, Lucienne Rasetti; remarks on early null subjects, Luigi Rizzi; the acquisition of verb placement in Lucernese Swiss German, Manuela Schonenberger.

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