Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax (häftad)
Fler böcker inom
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
1990-10-01
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Illustrationer
0
Dimensioner
232 x 155 x 21 mm
Vikt
527 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780631163589

Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax

The Nature of Early Child Grammars of English

av Andrew Radford
Häftad,  Engelska, 1990-10-01
598
Köp
Spara som favorit
  • Skickas från oss inom 5-8 vardagar.
  • Fri frakt över 249 kr för privatkunder i Sverige.
Between the ages of one-and-a-half and two years children start to form elementary phrases and clauses. This stage of their linguistic development provides the first clear evidence that they have begun to develop a grammar of the language being acquired. It is therefore of paramount importance for any attempt to construct a theory of language acquisition. Drawing data from a corpus of more that 100,000 spontaneous utterances, Andrew Radford demonstrates that the fundamental characteristic of children's earliest structures is that they are essentially lexical and thematic in nature. They show evidence of the acqusition of lexical but not functional categories, and of thematic but not nonthematic constituents. This hypothesis provides a unified account of a wide range of phenomena in early child English including children's nonmastery of determiners, possessives, pronouns, missing arguments, expletives, case, binding, tense, agreement, auxiliaries, infinitives, complementisers, and movement phenomena. This detailed study of children's initial grammars suggests a model of acquisition which is essentially maturational. Different modules of the child's grammar come into operation at different stages of development, triggered by relevant aspects of the child's experience. In this, Radford's account sheds significant light on some of the fundamental questions for the theory of language acquisition.
Visa hela texten

Passar bra ihop

  1. Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax
  2. +
  3. The Artist's Way

De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt The Artist's Way av Julia Cameron (häftad).

Köp båda 2 för 835 kr

Kundrecensioner

Har du läst boken? Sätt ditt betyg »

Fler böcker av Andrew Radford

Visa alla böcker av Andrew Radford »

Övrig information

Andrew Radford is Professor (and Head of the Dept.) of Linguistics at the University of Essex. His major publications include a book on Italian Syntax (1977) and two standard introductions to syntactic theory, Transformational Syntax (1981) and Transformational Grammar (1988).

Innehållsförteckning

Preface. 1. Aims and Approaches. 2. Categorization in Early Child English. 3. Lexical Category Systems in Early Child English. 4. Absence of a Determiner System in Early Child English. 5. Absence of a Complementizer System in Early Child English. 6. Absence of an Inflection System in Early Child English. 7. Absence of a Case System in Early Child English. 8. The Grammar of Missing Arguments in Early Child English. 9. The Overall Structure of Early Child Grammars of English. 10. Explanations and Implications. Bibliography. Index.

Du kanske gillar