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Language and the learning curve : a new theory of syntactic development
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ninio, Anat, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language acquisition--Syntax.
- Language acquisition.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 206 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- Language and the learning curve
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on formal linguistic theory, cognitive psychology, and computational linguistics, and complexity theory, this volume takes the view that syntactic development is a simple process one that can be learned just like any other cognitive or motor skill.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Valency
- Linguistic approaches to valency and syntactic structure
- Implication for acquisition : syntax is simple
- Developmental evidence : the earliest word combinations are syntactic mergers
- Conclusions : children learn to merge two words according to their valency
- The learning curve
- The learning curve in cognitive psychology
- Implication for acquisition : syntax should transfer right away
- Developmental evidence : learning curves and generalizations in early syntax
- Conclusions : lexical-specific syntactic frames facilitate others
- Lexicalism
- The linguistic basis to lexicalism
- Implication for acquisition : no abstract schema formation
- Developmental evidence : no change in the form of syntactic schemas
- Conclusions : children learn a lexicalist syntax
- Similarity
- Similarity for transfer and generalization
- Implication for acquisition : no role for semantic linking in learning syntax
- Developmental evidence : no semantic effects in generalization and transfer
- Conclusions : children utilize similarity of form to organize the process of acquisition
- The growth of syntax
- The language web
- Implication for acquisition : learning means linking to the network
- Developmental evidence : children recreate the global features of the maternal network
- Conclusions : children join the language network.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780191584985 (ebook) :
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