Bilingual selection of syntactic knowledge : extending the principles and parameters approach /

Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge motivates a more formal approach in theoretical linguistics by investigating the parameters of syntactic variation and simultaneous acquisition of multiple languages. Taking the behavior of the Null Subject Parameter (NSP) across languages as an illustratio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Satterfield, Teresa, 1965-
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Kluwer Academic, [1999]
Subjects:	Language acquisition. Bilingualism. Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax. Principles and parameters (Linguistics) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Background for research
Genetic algorithms and language learning models
Analysis of null subjects
Demonstrations
Discussion and conclusions
Bilingual model code.