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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Crain; Rosalind Thornton |
| ISBN: | 0262032503 9780262032506 0262531801 9780262531801 |
| OCLC Number: | 47104022 |
| Description: | ix, 342 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. I. Modularity matching model. Introduction ; Constraints and universal grammar ; The poverty of the stimulus ; Models of language development ; Continuity versus input matching ; The competing factors model ; Competing tasks : reaction time studies ; Competing tasks : the act out task ; Competing tasks : imitation ; Judgment tasks and competing factors ; Context and competing factors ; Language processing ; Extralinguistic knowledge ; When principles and preferences collide ; Performance errors ; Methodological preliminaries -- pt. II. The elicited production task. Elicited production ; Eliciting relative clauses ; Asking questions : the "ask/tell" problem ; Structure dependence ; Wanna contraction ; Long distance questions and the medial-Wh ; Why children make good subjects ; Summary of designs -- pt. III. The truth value judgment task. Truth value judgments ; Backward anaphora ; Fundamentals of design : principle C ; What's wrong with this picture? ; Strong crossover ; Strongest crossover ; Principle B ; Following up on principle B ; Sets and circumstances ; Discourse binding ; Universal quantification ; Donkey sentences ; A potential drawback of the task ; Resolving the dilemma : control sentences ; Resolving the dilemma : varying the context ; Conclusion. |
| Series Title: | Language, speech, and communication. |
| Responsibility: | Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton. |
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