Early Syntactic Development

Bowerman, Melissa

ISBN 10: 0521200199 / ISBN 13: 9780521200196

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973

A propos de cet article

A cross-linguistic study with special reference to Finnish. Light general wear with several small creases to the dust jacket. Otherwise an excellent copy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Early Syntactic Development
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521200199
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521200196
• Reliure: Cloth
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

This important work was the first systematic attempt to apply theoretical and methodological tools developed in America to the acquisition of a language other than English.

Présentation de l'éditeur

First published in 1973, this important work was the first systematic attempt to apply theoretical and methodological tools developed in America to the acquisition of a language other than English. Dr Bowerman presents and analyses data from a longitudinal investigation of the early syntactic development of two Finnish children, and compares their speech at two stages of development with that of American, Samoan and Luo children. The four language families (Finno-Ugric, Indo-European, Malayo-Polynesian and Nilotic respectively) with very different structures, and this is the first systematic comparison of the acquisition of several types of native language within a common analysis. Similarities in the linguistic behaviour of children learning these four different languages are used to evaluate hypotheses about universals of language, and to generate new proposals.