Direct Objects and Language Acquisition

Informationen zum Autor Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Toronto. Her research seeks to understand how children learn the syntax and semantics of the smallest and silent components of sentence grammar, including determiners, prepositions, number, tense, mood and aspect, null objects and subjects, and how grammatical complexity develops from these components. Klappentext This book explores a much-debated area of language acquisition: the omission by young children of direct objects in a sentence. Zusammenfassung The first book to consider all components of verbal transitivity and their development in child language acquisition. Ideal for advanced readers in language acquisition and syntactic theory! it demonstrates for non-specialist readers the intricacies of verbal transitivity! and how children rely on structural! lexical and pragmatic knowledge to unravel the system. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Missing objects in child language; 2. From the missing to the invisible; 3. Rome leads to all roads; 4. Interpreting the missing object; 5. How unusual is your object?; 6. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux, Ana Teresa (University of Toronto) Perez-Leroux, Ana Teresa (University of Toronto) P Perez-Leroux, Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu, Mihaela (University of Toronto) Pirvulescu, Yves Roberge, Yves (University of Toronto) Roberge
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107018006
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01800-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics