Ups and Downs of Child Language - Experimental Studies on Children s Knowledge of Entailment

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Gualmini is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Linguistics at M.I.T. He received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Maryland. Klappentext This book shows that it is possible to extend research on child language to children's semantic competence! adopting the same theoretical framework that has proven useful to the study of children's syntactic competence. Zusammenfassung This book shows that it is possible to extend research on child language to children's semantic competence, adopting the same theoretical framework that has proven useful to the study of children's syntactic competence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1: Language and Acquisition Chapter 2: Entailment and Polarity Phenomena in Child Language Chapter 3: The Structure of Child Language Chapter 4: Asymmetries of Child Language Chapter 5: Structure and Beyond Chapter 6: The Structure of the Universal Asymmetry and Beyond Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Appendix F Appendix G References Index

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Gualmini, Gualmini Andrea
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2004
• EAN: 9780415971256
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97125-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism