Author: Jill De Villiers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This special issue spans the domain of inquiry concerning the acquisition of wh-questions. Wh-questions have become a central interest for theorists of language acquisition because they exemplify some of the most significant principles of grammar. Most important, they involve movement rules; hence, their acquisition introduces issues such as: * When are long-distance rules acquired? * When are barriers to movement operative? * How do empty categories emerge? As these articles demonstrate, questions can provide a window into phrase structure as well as the principles of children's grammar. In the past several years, the growing body of research on questions has multiplied the perspectives, the range of constructions studied, and the cross-linguistic evidence about Universal Grammar and child language. In this new work, acquisition theorists have moved beyond trying to verify the claims of linguistic theory with respect to child grammars. The contributors share the perspective that one can take seriously the evidence from acquisition to suggest modifications in liguistic theory, or to help in deciding among competing accounts in adult grammar based on intuitions. Representing the leading edge of contemporary work in this domain, the articles range widely in topic, methodology, and theoretical commitments.
The Acquisition of WH-Questions
Author: Jill De Villiers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This special issue spans the domain of inquiry concerning the acquisition of wh-questions. Wh-questions have become a central interest for theorists of language acquisition because they exemplify some of the most significant principles of grammar. Most important, they involve movement rules; hence, their acquisition introduces issues such as: * When are long-distance rules acquired? * When are barriers to movement operative? * How do empty categories emerge? As these articles demonstrate, questions can provide a window into phrase structure as well as the principles of children's grammar. In the past several years, the growing body of research on questions has multiplied the perspectives, the range of constructions studied, and the cross-linguistic evidence about Universal Grammar and child language. In this new work, acquisition theorists have moved beyond trying to verify the claims of linguistic theory with respect to child grammars. The contributors share the perspective that one can take seriously the evidence from acquisition to suggest modifications in liguistic theory, or to help in deciding among competing accounts in adult grammar based on intuitions. Representing the leading edge of contemporary work in this domain, the articles range widely in topic, methodology, and theoretical commitments.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This special issue spans the domain of inquiry concerning the acquisition of wh-questions. Wh-questions have become a central interest for theorists of language acquisition because they exemplify some of the most significant principles of grammar. Most important, they involve movement rules; hence, their acquisition introduces issues such as: * When are long-distance rules acquired? * When are barriers to movement operative? * How do empty categories emerge? As these articles demonstrate, questions can provide a window into phrase structure as well as the principles of children's grammar. In the past several years, the growing body of research on questions has multiplied the perspectives, the range of constructions studied, and the cross-linguistic evidence about Universal Grammar and child language. In this new work, acquisition theorists have moved beyond trying to verify the claims of linguistic theory with respect to child grammars. The contributors share the perspective that one can take seriously the evidence from acquisition to suggest modifications in liguistic theory, or to help in deciding among competing accounts in adult grammar based on intuitions. Representing the leading edge of contemporary work in this domain, the articles range widely in topic, methodology, and theoretical commitments.
Guide to Communication Milestones
Author: Janet R. Lanza
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760608265
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760608265
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics
Author: Heather Winskel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107017769
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
This groundbreaking volume explores the languages of South and Southeast Asia, which differ significantly from Indo-European languages in their grammar, lexicon and spoken forms. This book raises new questions in psycholinguistics and enables readers to re-evaluate previous models in light of new research.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107017769
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
This groundbreaking volume explores the languages of South and Southeast Asia, which differ significantly from Indo-European languages in their grammar, lexicon and spoken forms. This book raises new questions in psycholinguistics and enables readers to re-evaluate previous models in light of new research.
The Acquisition of Wh-questions in English
Author: Jaya Sarma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Acquisition of Malay Wh-questions
Author: Norhaida Aman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Malay language
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Malay language
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition
Author: Bill VanPatten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108486665
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
An introduction to the key questions that drive the field of L2 acquisition research, including its historical foundations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108486665
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
An introduction to the key questions that drive the field of L2 acquisition research, including its historical foundations.
The Acquisition of Wh-questions
Author: Jill G. De Villiers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The Questioning Child
Author: Lucas Payne Butler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428916
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Explores how question-asking develops, how it can be nurtured, and how it helps children learn.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428916
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Explores how question-asking develops, how it can be nurtured, and how it helps children learn.
The Acquisition of WH Questions
Author: Tracey Mary Derwing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language acquisition
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The claim that subject-auxiliary inversion in negative WH questions is acquired later than in their positive counterparts is tested in an expanded replication of Bellugi's 1971 experiment. The original results are supported; however, it is argued that the time difference in development is not due, as has been previously suggested, to syntactic complexity, but rather to semantic and contextual constraints. An unexpected finding of this study, that positive WH questions and Yes/No questions may develop simultaneously, is interpreted within a functional framework. In addition, the contradictory results of previous research are discussed and an alternative, semantically-based hypothesis is formulated to explain them. It is argued that more data must be collected before any conclusions can be drawn concerning the relative rates of development of Yes/No and WH questions.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language acquisition
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The claim that subject-auxiliary inversion in negative WH questions is acquired later than in their positive counterparts is tested in an expanded replication of Bellugi's 1971 experiment. The original results are supported; however, it is argued that the time difference in development is not due, as has been previously suggested, to syntactic complexity, but rather to semantic and contextual constraints. An unexpected finding of this study, that positive WH questions and Yes/No questions may develop simultaneously, is interpreted within a functional framework. In addition, the contradictory results of previous research are discussed and an alternative, semantically-based hypothesis is formulated to explain them. It is argued that more data must be collected before any conclusions can be drawn concerning the relative rates of development of Yes/No and WH questions.
On the Typology of Wh-questions
Author: Lisa Lai Shen Cheng
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815328872
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Offers an explanation for a long-standing question in the typological distinction among languages with respect to formation of interrogatives which use questions words such as "who" and "what." Proposes that the availability of question particles and the properties of question words contribute to the typological distinctions found, and argues that the availability of question particles correlates with the lack of fronting of question words. Of interest to scholars working on interrogatives, syntactic theory, comparative syntax, Chinese syntax, and typology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815328872
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Offers an explanation for a long-standing question in the typological distinction among languages with respect to formation of interrogatives which use questions words such as "who" and "what." Proposes that the availability of question particles and the properties of question words contribute to the typological distinctions found, and argues that the availability of question particles correlates with the lack of fronting of question words. Of interest to scholars working on interrogatives, syntactic theory, comparative syntax, Chinese syntax, and typology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR