TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crain,Stephen
AU  - Lillo-Martin,Diane C.
TI  - An introduction to linguistic theory and language acquisition
T2  - Blackwell textbooks in linguistics
SN  - 0631195351 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - P118 .C6747 1999
U1  - 401/.93 CUT C883 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Malden, Mass.
PB  - Blackwell Publishers
KW  - Language acquisition
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Psycholinguistics
KW  - Philosophy & theory; international languages
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [408]-415) and index; Pt. I; Linguistic Knowledge --; 1; Introduction to Language Acquisition --; 2; Knowledge in the Absence of Experience --; 3; Stages of Language Acquisition --; 4; Why Language Does Not Have to be Taught --; 5; Dispelling a Common-Sense Account --; 6; Universal Grammar and the Logical Problem of Language Acquisition --; 7; The Modularity Hypothesis --; Pt. II; Constituent Structure --; 8; Phrase Structure --; 9; Phrase Structure Rules and X'-Theory --; 10; Setting the X'-Parameters --; 11; Phrasal Categories --; 12; Ambiguity and Productivity --; 13; Children's Knowledge of Phrase Structure --; 14; Constraints on Reference --; 15; Children's Knowledge of Constraints: Backwards Anaphora --; Pt. III; Transformational Syntax --; 16; A Transformation Generating Yes/No Questions --; 17; Children's Adherence to Structure Dependence --; 18; WH-Movement --; 19; Cross-Linguistic Aspects of WH-Questions --; 20; The Acquisition of WH-Questions --; 21; Successive Cyclic Movement --; 22; Successful Cyclic Movement --; 23; A Constraint on Contraction --; 24; Acquisition of Wanna Contraction --; 25; Principle C in WH-Questions --; 26; Children's Knowledge of Strong Crossover --; Pt. IV; Universal Grammar in the Visual Modality --; 27; The Structure of American Sign Language --; 28; The Acquisition of American Sign Language --; 29; The Structure and Acquisition of WH-Questions in American Sign Language --; 30; Parameter Setting --; 31; Modularity and Modality --; Pt. V; Semantics and Philosophy of Language --; 32; Theories of Meaning --; 33; Truth-Conditional Semantics --; 34; Compositionality I --; 35; Compositionality II --; 36; Intensional Semantics --; 37; Learnability of Syntax and Semantics --; 38; Acquisition of NPs with Modifiers --; 39; Relative Clauses --; 40; Universal Quantification
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