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Generative perspectives on language acquisition
empirical findings, theoretical considerations, and crosslinguistic comparisons
xxvii, 499 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
The optional-infinitive stage in child English / Tony Harris & Ken Wexler -- Towards a structure-building model of acquisition / Andrew Radford -- The underspecification of functional categories in early grammar / Nina Hyams -- Lexical learning in early syntactic development / Harald Clahsen, Sonja Eisenbeiss & Martina Penke -- Strong continuity, parameter setting, and the trigger hierarchy : on the acquisition of the DP in Bernese Swiss German and High German / Zvi Penner & Jürgen Weissenborn -- Subject-verb and object-verb agreement in early Basque / Jürgen M. Meisel & Maria-Jose Ezeizabarrena -- Acquisition of Italian interrogatives / Maria Teresa Guasti -- Root infinitives, clitics, and truncated structures / Liliane Haegeman -- On the acquisition of subject and object clitics in French / Cornelia Hamann, Luigi Rizzi & Uli H. Frauenfelder -- Clitics in L2 French / Lydia White -- The initial hypothesis of syntax : a minimalist perspective on language acquisition and attrition / Christer Platzack -- The role of merger theory and formal features in acquisition / Thomas Roeper -- Now, hang on a minute : some reflections on emerging orthodoxies / Martin Atkinson.
Chiefly based on papers presented at a workshop held Mar. 18-20, 1994, University of Essex.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language acquisition & language disorders. v. 14