Generative perspectives on language acquisition : empirical findings, theoretical considerations, and crosslinguistic comparisons

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Generative perspectives on language acquisition : empirical findings, theoretical considerations, and crosslinguistic comparisons

edited by Harald Clahsen

（Language acquisition & language disorders / editors, Harald Clahsen, William Rutherford, v. 14）

John Benjamins Publishing Company, c1996

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"Chiefly based on papers presented at a workshop held Mar. 18-20, 1994, University of Essex" -- T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and indexes of names and subjects (p. [487]-499)

Contents of Works

  • The optional-infinitive stage in child English : evidence from negation / Tony Harris & Ken Wexler
  • Towards a structure-building model of acquisition / Andrew Radford
  • The underspecification of functional categories in early grammar / Nina Hyams
  • Lexical learning in early syntactic development / Harald Clahsen, Sonja Eisenbeiss & Martina Penke
  • Strong continuity, parameter setting, and the trigger hierarchy : on the acquisition of the DP in Bernese Swiss German and High German / Zvi Penner & Jürgen Weissenborn
  • Subject-verb and object-verb agreement in early Basque / Jürgen M. Meisel & Maria-Jose Ezeizabarrena
  • Acquisition of Italian interrogatives / Maria Teresa Guasti
  • Root infinitives, clitics, and truncated structures / Liliane Haegeman
  • On the acquisition of subject and object clitics in French / Cornelia Hamann, Luigi Rizzi & Uli H. Frauenfelder
  • Clitics in L2 French / Lydia White
  • The initial hypothesis of syntax : a minimalist perspective on language acquisition and attrition / Christer Platzack
  • The role of merger theory and formal features in acquisition / Thomas Roeper
  • Now, hang on a minute : some reflections on emerging orthodoxies / Martin Atkinson

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