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Language acquisition and syntactic theory :

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Language acquisition and syntactic theory :

[Book]

a comparative analysis of French and English child grammars /

Amy E. Pierce

xi, 173 pages :

illustrations ;

23 cm

Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics ;

v. 14

Includes index

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral--1989)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-164)

Ch. 1: Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory. 1.1: Introduction. 1.2: Theoretical background. 1.2.1: The VP-internal subject hypothesis. 1.2.2: Inflectional affixation in French and English. 1.2.3: The economy of derivation framework. 1.3: A methodological note -- Ch. 2: Word Order. 2.1: Word order in the early grammar of English. 2.1.1: Background. 2.1.2: Unaccusative verbs. 2.1.3: The data. 2.2: Postverbal subjects in the early grammar of French. 2.2.1: Background. 2.2.2: The data. 2.2.3: A glance at word order in Italian child language. 2.3: Case assignment. 2.4: Summary -- Ch. 3: Negation. 3.1: Negation in English child language. 3.1.1: Background. 3.1.2: The data. 3.2: Negation in French child language. 3.2.1: Comparative findings. 3.2.2: Negative placement as evidence for Infl. 3.3: Comparative summary -- Ch. 4: Inflectional Affixation. 4.1: The acquisition of verbal inflection in English. 4.1.1: Affix-lowering. 4.1.2: Auxiliaries and modals. 4.2: The acquisition of verbal inflection in French. 4.2.1: Background. 4.2.2: The instantiation of Infl. 4.2.3: Relative positioning of inflectional elements -- Ch. 5: Pronominal Subjects. 5.1: Background issues. 5.2: Subject pronouns in French child language. 5.3: A comparative look at the English data -- Ch. 6: Null Subjects. 6.1: Null subjects in French child language. 6.2: A comparative look at English acquisition. 6.3: Null subjects over the course of acquisition -- Ch. 7: Language Change. 7.1: Change and acquisition in French. 7.2: Change and acquisition in English -- Ch. 8: A Comparative Look at Spanish Acquisition. 8.1: Word order. 8.2: Negation. 8.3: Inflectional affixation. 8.4: Subject pronouns -- Ch. 9: Conclusion

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English language-- Grammar, Comparative-- French

French language-- Grammar, Comparative-- English

Grammar, Comparative and general-- Syntax

Language acquisition

Pierce, Amy E

20141128123133.0

[Book]

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