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Investigations in universal grammar : a guide to experiments on the acquisition of syntax and semantics
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Investigations in universal grammar : a guide to experiments on the acquisition of syntax and semantics

Author: Stephen Crain; Rosalind Thornton
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.
Series: Language, speech, and communication.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st MIT Press pbk. edView all editions and formats
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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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