Language Acquisition The State of the Art

Name: Language Acquisition The State of the Art
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ISBN: 9780521282383

ISBN-10: 0521282381

ISBN-13: 9780521282383

Edition: 1982

Authors: Eric Wanner, Lila R. Gleitman

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Description:

This book offers a comprehensive study of language development.

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/30/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English



List of contributors


Preface



The Logic of Language Acquisition



Language acquisition: the state of the state of the art




Preconditions for Language Acquisition



The resilience of recursion: a study of a communication system developed without a conventional language model




Why short subjects are harder to find than long ones




On mechanisms of language acquisition: can features of the communicative environment account for development?




Universal and particular in the acquisition of language




The Development of Grammar



Functionalist approaches to grammar




On what cases categories there are, why they are, and how they develop: an amalgam of a priori considerations, speculation and evidence from children




The child's construction of grammatical categories




The role of universals in the acquisition of gerunds




A principle theory for language acquisition




Semantic and Lexical Development



Reorganisational processes in lexical and syntactic development




Semantic development: the state of the art




The young word maker: a case study of innovation in the child's lexicon




Alternative Conceptions of Acquisition



Some implications of the nonspecific bases of language




Task specificity in language learning? Evidence from speech perception and American Sign Language



References


Index