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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813498903321

Autore

Snyder William <1966->

Titolo

Child language : the parametric approach / / William Snyder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-383-04408-2

9786611155100

1-281-15510-1

0-19-153797-7

1-4356-1015-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Oxford linguistics

Disciplina

401/.93

Soggetti

Language acquisition

Principles and parameters (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-204) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 A Brief Introduction; 2 The View from Syntactic Theory; 3 The View from Phonological Theory; 4 The View from Children's Spontaneous Speech; 5 Statistical Methods for Longitudinal Studies; 6 Experimental and StatisticalMethods for Cross-Sectional Studies; 7 Case Studies in the Parametric Approach; 8 Conclusions: Grammatical Conservatism and Cross-Linguistic Variation; References; Language Index; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

This systematic presentation of the parametric approach to child language considers the nature of the information the child must acquire according to the various linguistic theories.