Early Syntactic Development

Author : William O'Grady
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226620787

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Syntactic Development by William O'Grady Pdf

Syntactic Development presents a broad critical survey of the research literature on child language development. Giving balanced coverage to both theoretical and empirical issues, William O'Grady constructs an up-to-date picture of how children acquire the syntax of English. Part 1 offers an overview of the developmental data pertaining to a range of syntactic phenomena, including word order, subject drop, embedded clauses, wh-questions, inversion, relative clauses, passives, and anaphora. Part 2 considers the various theories that have been advanced to explain the facts of development as well as the learnability problem, reporting on work in the mainstream formalist framework but also considering the results of alternative approaches. Covering a wide range of perspectives in the modern study of syntactic development, this book is an invaluable reference for specialists in the field of language acquisition and provides an excellent introduction to the acquisition of syntax for students and researchers in psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science.

Author : Melissa Bowerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Children
ISBN : 0608122785

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Early Syntactic Development by Melissa Bowerman Pdf

Author : Martyn Barrett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317715276

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The Development of Language by Martyn Barrett Pdf

This book presents a general overview of our current knowledge of language development in children. All the principal strands of language development are covered, including phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development; bilingualism; precursors to language development in infancy; and the language development of children with developmental disabilities, including children with specific language impairment. Written by leading international authorities, each chapter summarises clearly and lucidly our current state of knowledge, and carefully explains and evaluates the theories which have been proposed to account for children's development in that area.

Author : Melissa Bowerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521200199

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Early Syntactic Development by Melissa Bowerman Pdf

First published in 1973, this important work was the first systematic attempt to apply theoretical and methodological tools developed in America to the acquisition of a language other than English. Dr Bowerman presents and analyses data from a longitudinal investigation of the early syntactic development of two Finnish children, and compares their speech at two stages of development with that of American, Samoan and Luo children. The four language families (Finno-Ugric, Indo-European, Malayo-Polynesian and Nilotic respectively) with very different structures, and this is the first systematic comparison of the acquisition of several types of native language within a common analysis. Similarities in the linguistic behaviour of children learning these four different languages are used to evaluate hypotheses about universals of language, and to generate new proposals.

Author : Jürgen Weissenborn,Barbara Höhle
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298232

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Approaches to Bootstrapping by Jürgen Weissenborn,Barbara Höhle Pdf

Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition are: cues and mechanisms for isolating words in the input; special features of motherese and their role for early word learning; the determination of first word meanings; memory and related processing capacities in early word learning and understanding; and lexical representation and lexical access in early language production. The papers on syntactic development deal with the acquisition of grammatical prosodic features for learning language specific syntactic regularities.Volume 2 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on the interaction between the development of prosodic and morphosyntactic knowledge as evidenced in the early speech of Dutch, English, German, Portugese, Spanish, Danish, Islandic, and Swedish children sheding new light on the relation between universal and language specific aspects of language acquisition. Another section of this volume deals with new approaches to language acquisition using ERP- techniques. The papers discuss in detail the relation between the development of language skills and changes in neurophysiological aspects of the brain. The potentials of these techniques for the development of new tools for an early diagnosis of children who are at risque for developmental language disorders are also pointed out. The closing section contains a synopsis of interactionist approaches to language acquisition, a discussion of the genetic and experiential origin of primitive linguistic elements in acquisition, and a discussion of structural and developmental aspects of bird song in comparison to human language. The two volumes making up Approaches to Bootstrapping present a state-of-the art interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic overview of recent developments in first language acquisition research.

Author : Stan A. Kuczaj
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0898591007

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Language Development: Syntax and semantics by Stan A. Kuczaj Pdf

First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Melissa Bowerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Finnish language
ISBN : OCLC:1014651723

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Early Syntactic Development. A Cross-linguistic Study with Special Reference to Finnish. [Mit Tab.] by Melissa Bowerman Pdf

Author : Jürgen Weissenborn,Barbara Höhle
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298225

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Approaches to Bootstrapping by Jürgen Weissenborn,Barbara Höhle Pdf

Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition are: cues and mechanisms for isolating words in the input; special features of motherese and their role for early word learning; the determination of first word meanings; memory and related processing capacities in early word learning and understanding; and lexical representation and lexical access in early language production. The papers on syntactic development deal with the acquisition of grammatical prosodic features for learning language specific syntactic regularities.Volume 2 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on the interaction between the development of prosodic and morphosyntactic knowledge as evidenced in the early speech of Dutch, English, German, Portugese, Spanish, Danish, Islandic, and Swedish children shedding new light on the relation between universal and language specific aspects of language acquisition. Another section of this volume deals with new approaches to language acquisition using ERP- techniques. The papers discuss in detail the relation between the development of language skills and changes in neurophysiological aspects of the brain. The potentials of these techniques for the development of new tools for an early diagnosis of children who are at risque for developmental language disorders are also pointed out. The closing section contains a synopsis of interactionist approaches to language acquisition, a discussion of the genetic and experiential origin of primitive linguistic elements in acquisition, and a discussion of structural and developmental aspects of bird song in comparison to human language. The two volumes making up Approaches to Bootstrapping present a state-of-the art interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic overview of recent developments in first language acquisition research.

Author : Margaret Harris
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135064778

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Language Experience and Early Language Development by Margaret Harris Pdf

Addresses one debate in language development, namely the relationship between children's language development and their language experience.

Author : Marilyn May Vihman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:932411127

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First Steps in Morphological and Syntactic by Marilyn May Vihman Pdf

Author : Anat Ninio
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199565962

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Syntactic Development, Its Input and Output by Anat Ninio Pdf

This text places the syntactic learning process under close scrutiny. Its focus is on the characteristics of linguistic input and the resultant output, which, it suggests, do not follow the orderly uniform processes assumed by some versions of formalistic linguistic theory.

Author : Roger Brown
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015000524739

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A First Language by Roger Brown Pdf

For many years, Roger Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children--the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, studying both semantic and grammatical aspects of their language development. These core findings are related to recent work in psychology and linguistics--and especially to studies of the acquisition of languages other than English, including Finnish, German, Korean, and Samoan. Roger Brown has written the most exhaustive and searching analysis yet undertaken of the early stages of grammatical constructions and the meanings they convey. The five stages of linguistic development Brown establishes are measured not by chronological age-since children vary greatly in the speed at which their speech develops--but by mean length of utterance. This volume treats the first two stages. Stage I is the threshold of syntax, when children begin to combine words to make sentences. These sentences, Brown shows, are always limited to the same small set of semantic relations: nomination, recurrence, disappearance, attribution, possession, agency, and a few others. Stage II is concerned with the modulations of basic structural meanings--modulations for number, time, aspect, specificity--through the gradual acquisition of grammatical morphemes such as inflections, prepositions, articles, and case markers. Fourteen morphemes are studied in depth and it is shown that the order of their acquisition is almost identical across children and is predicted by their relative semantic and grammatical complexity. It is, ultimately, the intent of this work to focus on the nature and development of knowledge: knowledge concerning grammar and the meanings coded by grammar; knowledge inferred from performance, from sentences and the settings in which they are spoken, and from signs of comprehension or incomprehension of sentences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 095333533X

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First Steps in Morphological and Syntactic Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barbara C. Lust
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139459273

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Child Language by Barbara C. Lust Pdf

The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we have essentially mastered by the age of three, and with incredible ease and speed, despite the complexity of the task. This accessible textbook introduces the field of child language acquisition, exploring language development from birth. Setting out the key theoretical debates, it considers questions such as what characteristics of the human mind make it possible to acquire language; how far acquisition is biologically programmed and how far it is influenced by our environment; what makes second language learning (in adulthood) different from first language acquisition; and whether the specific stages in language development are universal across languages. Clear and comprehensive, it is set to become a key text for all courses in child language acquisition, within linguistics, developmental psychology and cognitive science.

Author : Lois Bloom
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262020564

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Language Development by Lois Bloom Pdf

The research reported is in investigation into the early acquisition of grammar by three children from the age of approximately 19 months. Nonlinguistic information from situational and behavioral context was used to infer the semantic intent of utterances in order to analyze the development of linguistic expression. Previous psycholinguistic studies of child language had described utterances in terms of the orderly distribution with which words occurred in juxtaposition. In this study, by making judgments of semantic intent, it was possible to describe the inherent structure of utterances so that conclusions could be drawn about the child's knowledge of semantic-syntactic relationship in the derivation of sentences. For example, when the child said "Mommy sock" and Mommy was putting the child's sock on the child, it was clear that a different semantic interpretation was intended than when the child said "Mommy sock" and picked up Mommy's sock. The syntactic components of generative transformational grammars were proposed for those samples of the children's language in which mean length of utterance was less than 1.5 morphemes. For the psychologist, the book provides added insight into the relative development of syntactic expression and underlying cognitive function. It was clear, for example, that the two did not develop hand in hand. For the linguist, the book provides additional evidence for the growing conclusion that child language is not incoherent. There is strong evidence presented to demonstrate the extent (and limitations) of the child's knowledge of basic grammatical relations in the earliest two-word utterances. For the speech pathologist concerned with language disorders in children, the evidence presented and the resulting conclusions should provide important hypotheses for application in treatment. One of the major contributions that this book will make to the literature on child language is the presentation of a large body of data in support of the conclusions that have been drawn. There is an extensive catalog of the children's earliest two-word utterances, negative sentences, and syntactic and single-word lexicons. This evidence should prove invaluable to other researchers in the field.