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Child Language: The Parametric Approach (Oxford Linguistics)
William Snyder
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paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, tree diagrams, graphs, tables. BIC Classification: CFDC; JMC; JMR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 12. Weight in Grams: 374.
This is a systematic presentation of the parametric approach to child language. Linguistic theory seeks to specify the range of grammars permitted by the human language faculty and thereby to specify the child's "hypothesis space" during language acquisition. Theories of language variation have central implications for the study of child language, and vice versa. Yet the acquisitional predictions of such theories are seldom tested against attested data. This book aims to redress this neglect. It considers the nature of the information the child must acquire according to the various linguistic theories. In doing so it sets out in detail the ... Read more
This is a systematic presentation of the parametric approach to child language. Linguistic theory seeks to specify the range of grammars permitted by the human language faculty and thereby to specify the child's "hypothesis space" during language acquisition. Theories of language variation have central implications for the study of child language, and vice versa. Yet the acquisitional predictions of such theories are seldom tested against attested data. This book aims to redress this neglect. It considers the nature of the information the child must acquire according to the various linguistic theories. In doing so it sets out in detail the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199296705
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V9780199296705
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About William Snyder
William Snyder is Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, where he is also affiliated to the Department of Psychology. His interests are language acquisition, comparative morphology and syntax, and the syntax-semantics interface. His 1995 MIT PhD was Language Acquisition and Language Variation: The Role of Morphology. He is co-editor of the journal Language Acquisition.
Reviews for Child Language: The Parametric Approach (Oxford Linguistics)
This book is a clear and elegant summary of the author's research on children's acquisition of grammatical knowledge from a crosslinguistic perspective... In terms of editing, the book is nearly flawless
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