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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Missing Subjects in Early Child Language
• Grammatical Computation in the Optional Infinitive Stage
• Computational Models of Language Acquisition
• The Acquisition of the Passive
• The Acquistion Path of Wh-Questions
• Binding and Coreference: Views from Child Language
• Universal Grammar and the Acquisition of Japanese Syntax
• Studying Language Acquistion Through the Prism of Isomorphism
• Acquiring Knowledge of Universal Quantification
• Name Index
• Subject Index.