Syntactic Development

Name: Syntactic Development
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ISBN: 9780226620770

ISBN-10: 0226620778

ISBN-13: 9780226620770

Edition: 1997

Authors: William O'Grady

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Syntactic Development presents a broad critical survey of the research literature on child language development. Giving balanced coverage to both theoretical and empirical issues, William O'Grady constructs an up-to-date picture of how children acquire the syntax of English. Part 1 offers an overview of the developmental data pertaining to a range of syntactic phenomena, including word order, subject drop, embedded clauses, wh-questions, inversion, relative clauses, passives, and anaphora. Part 2 considers the various theories that have been advanced to explain the facts of development as well as the learnability problem, reporting on work in the mainstream formalist framework but also…

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List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/4/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 420
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.92" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Study of Language Acquisition



One-Word Utterances



Early Multiword Utterances



Word Order and Case



Subject Drop



Embedded Clauses



Wh Questions



Inversion



Relative Clauses and Clefts



Passives



Constraints on Coreference



The Learnability Problem



UG-Based Theories of the Acquisition Device



Alternatives to UG



Theories of Development



Concluding Remarks


Notes


Glossary


References


Index