Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: de Villiers, Jill (Editor), Roeper, Tom (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 41
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Psycholinguistics.; Syntax.; Language and education.; Language Education.

Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that promise has been fulfilled, explo...