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Investigations in universal grammar : a guide to experiments on the acquisition of syntax and semantics / Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Language, speech, and communicationCopyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585360723
  • 9780585360720
  • 9780262270908
  • 0262270900
  • 0262032503
  • 9780262032506
  • 0262531801
  • 9780262531801
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Investigations in universal grammar.DDC classification:
  • 401/.93 21
LOC classification:
  • P118.15 .C73 1998eb
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Contents:
pt. I. The Modularity Matching Model. Ch. 1. Introduction. Ch. 2. Constraints and Universal Grammar. Ch. 3. The Poverty of the Stimulus. Ch. 4. Models of Language Development. Ch. 5. Continuity versus Input Matching. Ch. 6. The Competing Factors Model. Ch. 7. Competing Tasks: Reaction Time Studies. Ch. 8. Competing Tasks: The Act Out Task. Ch. 9. Competing Tasks: Imitation. Ch. 10. Judgment Tasks and Competing Factors. Ch. 11. Context and Competing Factors. Ch. 12. Language Processing. Ch. 13. Extralinguistic Knowledge. Ch. 14. When Principles and Preferences Collide. Ch. 15. Performance Errors. Ch. 16. Methodological Preliminaries pt. II. The Elicited Production Task. Ch. 17. Elicited Production. Ch. 18. Eliciting Relative Clauses. Ch. 19. Asking Questions: The "Ask/Tell" Problem. Ch. 20. Structure Dependence. Ch. 21. Wanna Contraction. Ch. 22. Long Distance Questions and the Medial Wh. Ch. 23. Why Children Make Good Subjects. Ch. 24. Summary of Designs pt. III. The Truth Value Judgment Task. Ch. 25. Truth Value Judgments. Ch. 26. Backward Anaphora. Ch. 27. Fundamentals of Design: Principle C. Ch. 28. What's Wrong with This Picture? Ch. 29. Strong Crossover. Ch. 30. Strongest Crossover. Ch. 31. Principle B. Ch. 32. Following Up on Principle B. Ch. 33. Sets and Circumstances. Ch. 34. Discourse Binding. Ch. 35. Universal Quantification. Ch. 36. Donkey Sentences. Ch. 37. A Potential Drawback of the Task. Ch. 38. Resolving the Dilemma: Control Sentences. Ch. 39. Resolving the Dilemma: Varying the Context. Ch. 40. Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-338) and index.

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pt. I. The Modularity Matching Model. Ch. 1. Introduction. Ch. 2. Constraints and Universal Grammar. Ch. 3. The Poverty of the Stimulus. Ch. 4. Models of Language Development. Ch. 5. Continuity versus Input Matching. Ch. 6. The Competing Factors Model. Ch. 7. Competing Tasks: Reaction Time Studies. Ch. 8. Competing Tasks: The Act Out Task. Ch. 9. Competing Tasks: Imitation. Ch. 10. Judgment Tasks and Competing Factors. Ch. 11. Context and Competing Factors. Ch. 12. Language Processing. Ch. 13. Extralinguistic Knowledge. Ch. 14. When Principles and Preferences Collide. Ch. 15. Performance Errors. Ch. 16. Methodological Preliminaries pt. II. The Elicited Production Task. Ch. 17. Elicited Production. Ch. 18. Eliciting Relative Clauses. Ch. 19. Asking Questions: The "Ask/Tell" Problem. Ch. 20. Structure Dependence. Ch. 21. Wanna Contraction. Ch. 22. Long Distance Questions and the Medial Wh. Ch. 23. Why Children Make Good Subjects. Ch. 24. Summary of Designs pt. III. The Truth Value Judgment Task. Ch. 25. Truth Value Judgments. Ch. 26. Backward Anaphora. Ch. 27. Fundamentals of Design: Principle C. Ch. 28. What's Wrong with This Picture? Ch. 29. Strong Crossover. Ch. 30. Strongest Crossover. Ch. 31. Principle B. Ch. 32. Following Up on Principle B. Ch. 33. Sets and Circumstances. Ch. 34. Discourse Binding. Ch. 35. Universal Quantification. Ch. 36. Donkey Sentences. Ch. 37. A Potential Drawback of the Task. Ch. 38. Resolving the Dilemma: Control Sentences. Ch. 39. Resolving the Dilemma: Varying the Context. Ch. 40. Conclusion.

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