Direct Objects and Language Acquisition

ISBN-13: 9781108941013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 249 str.

Ana Teresa Pérez-LeRoux; Mihaela Pirvulescu; Yves Roberge

Opis

This book explores a much-debated area of language acquisition: the omission by young children of direct objects in a sentence.

Recenzje

'This is an admirable example of how a sophisticated analysis of a narrowly defined and partly even invisible phenomenon can reveal deep insights into language acquisition, with wide-ranging consequences for syntactic theory. As such, it is also a demonstration of how acquisition research can inform grammatical theory. Beautifully written, this book is therefore highly recommended to a readership not only interested in language acquisition but also in syntactic theory.' Jürgen Meisel, University of Hamburg

Spis treści

1. Missing objects in child language; 2. From the missing to the invisible; 3. Rome leads to all roads; 4. Interpreting the missing object; 5. How unusual is your object?; 6. Conclusion.