ISBN: 9781316644935 - the acquisition of syntactic structure: animacy and thematic alignment (cambridge studies in linguistics, 141, band 141) (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. This book explains how children's early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure. Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics. Num Pages: 342 pages, 32 b/w illus. 26 tables. BIC Classification: CFDC; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 46. . 2017. Reprint. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 342 pages. 8.90x5.91x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please. The answer lies in animacy: taking the premise that subjects are animate, the book argues that children can exploit the occurrence of an inanimate subject as a cue to a non-canonical structure, in which that subject is displaced (the book is easy/\*eager to read). The author uses evidence from a range of linguistic subfields, including syntactic theory, typology, language processing, conceptual development, language acquisition, and computational modeling, exposing readers to these different kinds of data in an accessible way. The theoretical claims of the book expand the well-known hypotheses of syntactic and semantic bootstrapping, resulting in greater coverage of the core principles of language acquisition. This is a must-read for researchers in language acquisition, syntax, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. …