Pronouns And Clitics In Early Language

Author : Pilar Larranaga,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110238815

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Pronouns and Clitics in Early Language by Pilar Larranaga,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Pdf

Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns. This book focuses on the acquisition of personal and demonstrative pronouns as well as clitics with respect to determinative phrases in a variety of languages of the Romance family and several indigenous languages, such as Quechua. A particularly original aspect of the present volume is that it not only addresses syntactic issues, but also semantic and pragmatic questions that have been widely neglected in the literature. It also reports on acquisition data of languages, such as Quechua, which have not attracted the attention of researchers until very recently.

Author : (Vol.1)Barbara Lust,Margarita Su¤er,John Whitman,(Vol.2)Barbara Lust,Gabriella Hermon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317728801

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Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition by (Vol.1)Barbara Lust,Margarita Su¤er,John Whitman,(Vol.2)Barbara Lust,Gabriella Hermon Pdf

Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different languages, carefully analyzed by a wide range of international scholars. The issues surrounding cross-linguistic variation in "Heads, Projections, and Learnability" (Volume 1) and in "Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability" (Volume 2) are arguably the most fundamental in UG. How can principles of grammar be learned by general learning theory? What is biologically programmed in the human species in order to guarantee their learnability? What is the true linguistic representation for these areas of language knowledge? What universals exist across languages? The two volumes summarize the most critical current proposals in each area, and offer both theoretical and empirical evidence bearing on them. Research on first language acquisition and formal learnability theory is placed at the center of debates relative to linguistic theory in each area. The convergence of research across several different disciplines -- linguistics, developmental psychology, and computer science -- represented in these volumes provides a paradigm example of cognitive science.

Author : Kleanthes K. Grohmann,Theoni Neokleous
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443857406

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Developments in the Acquisition of Clitics by Kleanthes K. Grohmann,Theoni Neokleous Pdf

The present volume presents new theoretical and empirical findings on the acquisition and development of clitics in and across different languages. It features ten chapters that largely emerged from the CYCL1A Workshop on the Acquisition of Clitics held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in May 2012. These chapters explore issues pertaining to the first (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition of clitic pronouns. There is an emphasis on Greek, with the first four chapters discussing mono- and bilingual acquisition of clitics in Cypriot Greek and the next two chapters on Standard Modern Greek. Three contributions focus on Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, and European Portuguese, respectively. The last chapter of this volume is an invited contribution by Ken Wexler on the Unique Checking Constraint as an explanation of clitic omission in normal and SLI development. This volume will constitute a valuable reference guide for current work on the acquisition of clitic pronouns.

Author : Xenia Konstantinopoulou,Marina Lalioti,Stavroula Stavrakaki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443869003

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Advances in Language Acquisition by Xenia Konstantinopoulou,Marina Lalioti,Stavroula Stavrakaki Pdf

This book contains 51 chapters based on papers presented at the GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) conference held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2011. It thus reflects the GALA 2011 scientific presentations and discussions and raises issues that are currently at the centre of language acquisition research. Such issues examined in this volume include first and second language acquisition and processing by children and adults; language acquisition by individuals with linguistic and/or cognitive impairment; and cross-linguistic comparisons in (a)typical language acquisition. As such, Advances in Language Acquisition constitutes a valuable reference guide for current work on the interdisciplinary research field of language acquisition.

Author : Kleanthes K. Grohmann,Maria Kambanaros,Evelina Leivada
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9782889456383

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Developmental, Modal, and Pathological Variation — Linguistic and Cognitive Profiles for Speakers of Linguistically Proximal Languages and Varieties by Kleanthes K. Grohmann,Maria Kambanaros,Evelina Leivada Pdf

One significant area of research in the multifaceted field of bilingualism over the past two decades has been the demonstration, validation, and account of the so-called ‘bilingual advantage’. This refers to the hypothesis that bilingual speakers have advanced abilities in executive functions and other domains of human cognition. Such cognitive benefits of bilingualism have an impact on the processing mechanisms active during language acquisition in a way that results in language variation. Within bilingual populations, the notion of language proximity (or linguistic distance) is also of key importance for deriving variation. In addition, sociolinguistic factors can invest the process of language development and its outcome with an additional layer of complexity, such as schooling, language, dominance, competing motivations, or the emergence of mesolectal varieties, which blur the boundaries of grammatical variants. This is particularly relevant for diglossic speech communities—bilectal, bidialectal, or bivarietal speakers. The defined goal of the present Research Topic is to address whether the bilingual advantage extends to such speakers as well. Thus, ‘Linguistic and Cognitive Profiles for Speakers of Linguistically Proximal Languages and Varieties’ become an important matter within ‘Developmental, Modal, and Pathological Variation’.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 0805813500

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Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Binding, dependencies, and learnability by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266309

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Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty by Anna Maria Di Sciullo Pdf

The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax. Different hypotheses about the properties of this generative procedure are under discussion, and their connection with biology is open to important cross-disciplinary work. Advances have been made in human-animal studies to differentiate human language from animal communication. Contributions from neurosciences point to the exclusive properties of the human brain for language. Studies in genetically based language impairments also contribute to the understanding of the properties of the language organ. This volume brings together contributions on theoretical and experimental investigations on the Language Faculty. It will be of interest to scholars and students investigating the properties of the biological basis of language, in terms the modeling of the language faculty, as well as the properties of language variation, language acquisition and language impairments.

Author : A.E. Pierce
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401125741

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Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory by A.E. Pierce Pdf

The theory of language acquisition is a young but increasingly active field. Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory presents one of the first detailed studies of comparative syntax acquisition. It is informed by the view that linguists and acquisitionists are essentially working on the same problem, that of explaining grammar learnability. The author takes cross-linguistic data from child language as evidence for recent proposals in syntactic theory. Developments in the structure of children's sentences during the first few years of life are traced to changes in the setting of specific grammatical parameters. Some surprising differences between the early child grammars of French and English are uncovered, differences that can only be explained on the basis of subtle distinctions in inflectional structure. This motivates the author's claim that functional or nonthematic categories are represented in the grammars of very young children. The book also explores the relationship between acquisition and diachronic change in French and English. It is argued that findings in acquisition, when viewed from a parameter setting perspective, provide answers to important questions arising in the study of language change. The book promises to be of interest to all those involved in the formal, psychological or historical study of linguistic knowledge.

Author : S.M. Powers,C. Hamann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401732321

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The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization by S.M. Powers,C. Hamann Pdf

This collection of papers investigates two specific linguistic phenomena from the point of view of first- and second-language acquisition. While observations on the acquisition of scrambling or pronominal clitics can be found in the literature, up until the recent past they were sparse and often buried in other issues. This volume fills a long-existing gap in providing a collection of articles which focus on language acquisition but at the same time address the overarching syntactic issues involved (for example, the X-bar status of clitics, base-generation vs. movement accounts of scrambling). This volume contains an overview of L1 (and, in one case, L2) acquisition data from a number of different languages including Bernese, Swiss, German, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, as well as from several theoretical points of view with these two clause-internal processes at its center. These language acquisition data are considered to be crucial in the validation of analyses of these specific linguistic phenomena in adult grammars. The contributions in this volume include the earliest thoughts in this vein and, for this reason, should be viewed as a starting point for discussions within theoretical linguistics and language acquisition alike.

Author : Anna Gavarró,Maria João Freitas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443815901

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Language Acquisition and Development by Anna Gavarró,Maria João Freitas Pdf

This volume gathers fifty papers from the conference Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, GALA 2007, celebrated in Barcelona between the 6th and 8th of September, 2007. It covers the areas of syntax and phonology of child language from the theoretical perspective of generative grammar – the theoretical outlook which first placed language acquisition at the centre of linguistic inquiry.

Author : Dieter Wanner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110893069

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The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns by Dieter Wanner Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Francesco Bryan Romano
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110759624

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Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language by Francesco Bryan Romano Pdf

This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and includes contributions from a variety of approaches.

Author : Agnes Jäger,Gisella Ferraresi,Helmut Weiß
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192543073

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Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German by Agnes Jäger,Gisella Ferraresi,Helmut Weiß Pdf

This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into central aspects of clause structure and word order, outlining the different stages of their historical development. Each chapter combines a solid empirical basis with descriptive generalizations, supported by a detailed discussion of theoretical analyses couched in the generative framework. Reference is also made throughout to the more traditional descriptive model of the German clause. The volume is divided into three parts that correspond to the main parts of the clause. Part I explores the left periphery, looking at verb placement (verb second and competing orders), the prefield, and adverbial connectives, while Part II discusses the middle field, including pronominal syntax, the order of full NPs, and the history of negation. The final part examines the right periphery with chapters covering basic word order (OV/VO), prosodic and information-structural factors, and the verbal complex. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students in historical syntax and the Germanic languages, and for both descriptive and theoretical linguists alike.

Author : Kimberly L. Geeslin,Avizia Y. Long,Megan Solon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317417194

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The Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language by Kimberly L. Geeslin,Avizia Y. Long,Megan Solon Pdf

This volume offers an introduction to the field of second language acquisition with a particular focus on second language Spanish. It connects key issues in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language to theoretical and empirical issues in the field of second language acquisition more generally by exemplifying central concepts in second language acquisition through the exploration of the most widely researched structures and most recent developments in the field of second language Spanish. It is written for a non-specialist audience, making it suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses and readers, while its treatment of recent empirical developments also makes it of interest to researchers in second language Spanish as well as allied fields.

Author : Jürgen M. Meisel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027224705

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Bilingual First Language Acquisition by Jürgen M. Meisel Pdf

The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific grammatical phenomena; explanations are given within the framework of the Principle and Parameter approach. The study is primarily concerned with the acquisition of so-called 'functional categories' and the consequences of their acquisition for the development of grammar. Specific points dealt with in these papers include: gender, number and case and their internal structure (DP vs NP); inflection and its consequences for agreement marking; and word order phenomena (subject-raising constructions (incl. passives), word order in subordinate clauses). The basic hypothesis underlying this study is that early child grammars consist only of lexical categories and that functional categories are implemented later in the child's grammar. How this happens exactly is the central issue explored in this book.