The Ups and Downs of Child Language: Experimental Studies on Children's Knowledge of Entailment Relationships and Polarity Phenomena - Couverture rigide

Gualmini, Andrea

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 041597125X ISBN 13 : 9780415971256

Editeur : Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

The new experimental evidence presented in The Ups and Downs of Child Language 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. Andrea Gualmini investigates the role of entailment relations for child language in a series of interconnected experiments assessing children's negation and their interpretation of words like or, every, and some. Comparing his study to other models of language acquisition and characterizing the observed differences between children and adults, Gualmini asserts that even in the domain of semantic competence there is no reason to assume that child language differs from adult language in ways that would exceed the boundary conditions imposed by Universal Grammar.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 041597125X
• ISBN 13: 9780415971256
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible