Language and the Learning Curve - A New Theory of Syntactic Development

Zusatztext I used the book in one of my MSc courses where it was very popular. The students... were excited about the approach and welcomed it as interesting and refreshingly healthy in wedding well the theory and data and yielding specific predictions. This is one of the reasons I intend to keep using the book in the future! Informationen zum Autor Anat Ninio was born in Budapest, Hungary and immigrated to Israel in 1957 as a child. Attended Hadassim Youth Village until graduating from high school. In 1965 received a B.A. in Statistics and English Linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1969 received another B.A. in Psychology, followed by an M.A. in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1974 from the same university, the latter two under the supervision of Professor Daniel Kahneman, specializing in Cognitive Psychology. Spent a year of post-doctoral studies with Professor Jerome Bruner at Oxford, studying early language development.Since 1970 she has been on the faculty of the Hebrew University, first as junior faculty, then as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor. Has spent sabbatical years as a Visiting Scholar or Visiting Professor at Duke University, Durham, at the New School for Social Research in New York, at New York University, New York, at the University of Quebec at Montreal, at Harvard University, Cambridge, at Macquarie University, Sydney, and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Has served as the Chair of the Graduate Developmental Program, and as the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Hebrew University. Served as the Chair of the Sturman Human Development Center and is currently serving as the Chair of the Martin and Vivian Levin Center for the Normal and Psychopathological Development of the Child and Adolescent at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.An Associate of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and a member of the Unesco Institute for Education Exchange Network on Functional Literacy in Industrialized Countries. Served on the editorial board of Applied Psycholinguistics and of the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly. A member of professional societies such as the Society for Research in Child Development and of the International Association for the Study of Child Language. Klappentext In Language and the Learning Curve, a leading researcher in the field offers a radical new view of language development, unusual in its combination of Chomskian linguistics and learning theory. Stimulating and accessible, it is an important new work that challenges many of our usual assumptions about syntactic development. Zusammenfassung In Language and the Learning Curve, a leading researcher in the field offers a radical new view of language development, unusual in its combination of Chomskian linguistics and learning theory. Stimulating and accessible, it is an important new work that challenges many of our usual assumptions about syntactic development. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Valency 1.1: Linguistic approaches to valency and syntactic structure 1.2: Implication for acquisition: syntax is simple 1.3: Developmental evidence: the earliest word combinations are syntactic mergers 1.4: Conclusions: children learn to merge two words according to their valency 2: The learning curve 2.1: The learning curve in cognitive psychology 2.2: Implication for acquisition: syntax should transfer right away 2.3: Developmental evidence: learning curves and generalizations in early syntax 2.4: Conclusions: lexical-specific syntactic frames facilitate others 3: Lexicalism 3.1: The linguistic basis to lexicalism 3.2: Implication for acquisition: no abstract schema formation 3.3: Developmental evidence: no change in the form of syntactic schemas 3.4: Conclusions: children learn a lexicalist syntax 4: Similarity 4.1: Similarity for transfer and generalization 4.2: Implication for acquisition:...

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• Authors: Anat Ninio, Anat ( Ninio, Anat (Joseph and Belle Braun Professor of P Ninio
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780199299812
• ISBN: 978-0-19-929981-2
• No. of pages: 220
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics