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First published in 1986. By the late seventies, linguists and psycholinguists in many countries were convinced of the need for gathering data on the acquisition of different types of languages and using the crosslinguistic method. In November 1979 the authors of this volume were invited to prepare interpretive summaries of the course of acquisition of various languages. Preliminary versions of chapters on individual languages were studied in a seminar on crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition at the 1980 Summer Linguistic Institute at the University of New Mexico, followed by a conference at Berkeley in November 1980.

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Author:   Patricia M. Clancy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9780898598438

ISBN 10:   0898598435
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   01 September 1986
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Crosslinguistic Study as a Method in Developmental Psycholinguistics, Null Hypothesis: Developmental Universals, Conceptual Development and the Construction of Grammar, Formal Pattern Preferences and Grammar, Concepts are Combined in Grammatical Morphemes According to Semantic Affinities in Grammatical Morphemes are Positioned According to Their Scope of Operation, Grammatical Markers are placed According to Principles of Semantic Relevance, Morphological Systems are Constructed According to Formal (Non-semantic) Criteria, Hypotheses of Specific Language Effects, Form-Function Interaction Influences Rate or Sequence of Development, Particular Linguistic Forms are Relatively More Accessible, Holding Content Constant, Separate Marking of Notions in Particular Languages Reveals a Conceptual Substratum, Language-specific Co-occurrences Reveal Patterns of Conceptual Relavance, Crosslinguistic Differences in Degree of Coding an Area Reveal Linguistic Capacities, The Plan of the Book. The Acquisition of Japanese Introduction Grammatical Sketch of Japanese, Sources of Evidence, Overall Course of Development, The Data, Typical Errors, Error-Free Acquisitions, Timing of Acquisition, Reorganizations in Development, The Setting of Language Acquisition, Cognitive Pacesetting of Linguistic Development, Linguistic Pacesetting of Cognitive Development, Individual Differences, Input and Adult-Child Interactions, Conclusions.

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Patricia M. Clancy, University of Southern California.

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