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

ISBN-13: 9780415971256 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 208 str.

Andrea Gualmini;Andrea Gualmini

Opis

This book 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.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: Language and Acquisition Chapter 2: Entailment and Polarity Phenomena in Child Language Chapter 3: The Structure of Child Language Chapter 4: Asymmetries of Child Language Chapter 5: Structure and Beyond Chapter 6: The Structure of the Universal Asymmetry and Beyond Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Appendix F Appendix G References Index

O autorze

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.