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Crain, Stephen, 1947-
An introduction to linguistic theory and language acquisition / Stephen Crain and Diane Lillo-Martin. - 1ST - Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1999. - xi, 424 p. ; 25 cm. - Blackwell textbooks in linguistics ; 15 . - Blackwell textbooks in linguistics ; 15. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [408]-415) and index.
Linguistic Knowledge -- Introduction to Language Acquisition -- Knowledge in the Absence of Experience -- Stages of Language Acquisition -- Why Language Does Not Have to be Taught -- Dispelling a Common-Sense Account -- Universal Grammar and the Logical Problem of Language Acquisition -- The Modularity Hypothesis -- Constituent Structure -- Phrase Structure -- Phrase Structure Rules and X'-Theory -- Setting the X'-Parameters -- Phrasal Categories -- Ambiguity and Productivity -- Children's Knowledge of Phrase Structure -- Constraints on Reference -- Children's Knowledge of Constraints: Backwards Anaphora -- Transformational Syntax -- A Transformation Generating Yes/No Questions -- Children's Adherence to Structure Dependence -- WH-Movement -- Cross-Linguistic Aspects of WH-Questions -- The Acquisition of WH-Questions -- Successive Cyclic Movement -- Successful Cyclic Movement -- A Constraint on Contraction -- Acquisition of Wanna Contraction -- Principle C in WH-Questions -- Children's Knowledge of Strong Crossover -- Universal Grammar in the Visual Modality -- The Structure of American Sign Language -- The Acquisition of American Sign Language -- The Structure and Acquisition of WH-Questions in American Sign Language -- Parameter Setting -- Modularity and Modality -- Semantics and Philosophy of Language -- Theories of Meaning -- Truth-Conditional Semantics -- Compositionality I -- Compositionality II -- Intensional Semantics -- Learnability of Syntax and Semantics -- Acquisition of NPs with Modifiers -- Relative Clauses -- Universal Quantification. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pt. II. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Pt. III. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Pt. IV. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Pt. V. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
0631195351 (cloth : alk. paper) 063119536X (pbk. : alk. paper)
98034401
Language acquisition.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Psycholinguistics.
P118 / .C6747 1999
401/.93 CUT C883
An introduction to linguistic theory and language acquisition / Stephen Crain and Diane Lillo-Martin. - 1ST - Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1999. - xi, 424 p. ; 25 cm. - Blackwell textbooks in linguistics ; 15 . - Blackwell textbooks in linguistics ; 15. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [408]-415) and index.
Linguistic Knowledge -- Introduction to Language Acquisition -- Knowledge in the Absence of Experience -- Stages of Language Acquisition -- Why Language Does Not Have to be Taught -- Dispelling a Common-Sense Account -- Universal Grammar and the Logical Problem of Language Acquisition -- The Modularity Hypothesis -- Constituent Structure -- Phrase Structure -- Phrase Structure Rules and X'-Theory -- Setting the X'-Parameters -- Phrasal Categories -- Ambiguity and Productivity -- Children's Knowledge of Phrase Structure -- Constraints on Reference -- Children's Knowledge of Constraints: Backwards Anaphora -- Transformational Syntax -- A Transformation Generating Yes/No Questions -- Children's Adherence to Structure Dependence -- WH-Movement -- Cross-Linguistic Aspects of WH-Questions -- The Acquisition of WH-Questions -- Successive Cyclic Movement -- Successful Cyclic Movement -- A Constraint on Contraction -- Acquisition of Wanna Contraction -- Principle C in WH-Questions -- Children's Knowledge of Strong Crossover -- Universal Grammar in the Visual Modality -- The Structure of American Sign Language -- The Acquisition of American Sign Language -- The Structure and Acquisition of WH-Questions in American Sign Language -- Parameter Setting -- Modularity and Modality -- Semantics and Philosophy of Language -- Theories of Meaning -- Truth-Conditional Semantics -- Compositionality I -- Compositionality II -- Intensional Semantics -- Learnability of Syntax and Semantics -- Acquisition of NPs with Modifiers -- Relative Clauses -- Universal Quantification. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pt. II. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Pt. III. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Pt. IV. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Pt. V. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
0631195351 (cloth : alk. paper) 063119536X (pbk. : alk. paper)
98034401
Language acquisition.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Psycholinguistics.
P118 / .C6747 1999
401/.93 CUT C883