Investigations in Universal Grammar: A Guide to Experiments on the Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics (Language, Speech, and Communication)

Crain, Stephen,Thornton, Rosalind

ISBN 10: 0262032503 / ISBN 13: 9780262032506

Editore: Bradford Book, 1998

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• Titolo: Investigations in Universal Grammar: A Guide to Experiments on the Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics (Language, Speech, and Communication)
• Editore: Bradford Book
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262032503
• ISBN 13: 9780262032506
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Includes dust jacket.

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This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two experimental techniques for assessing children's linguistic competence: the Elicited Production task, a production task, and the Truth Value Judgment task, a comprehension task. Their methodologies are designed to overcome the numerous obstacles to empirical investigation of children's language competence. They produce research results that are more reproducible and less likely to be dismissed as an artifact of improper experimental procedure.

In the first section of the book, the authors examine the fundamental assumptions that guide research in this area; they present both a theory of linguistic competence and a model of language processing. In the following two sections, they discuss in detail their two experimental techniques.

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Book by Crain Stephen Thornton Rosalind