Parameter setting in language acquisition [[electronic resource] /] / Dalila Ayoun

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826510603321
• Autore: Ayoun Dalila <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2003
• ISBN: 1-281-29446-2; 9786611294465; 1-84714-336-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 418
• Soggetti: Language acquisition; Principles and parameters (Linguistics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-203) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 3 Parameter-(re)setting theory; 4 Parameters of Universal Grammar; 5 Experimental studies in first and second language acquisition; 6 Revisiting traditional assumptions; 7 Conclusion; Note; Appendix: Languages exhibiting null subjects/arguments; Bibliography; Subject index; Name index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides a broad overview of parameter-setting theory in first and second language acquisition and refines the theory by revisiting and challenging the traditional assumptions that underlie it, based on cross-linguistic language data that cover a range of syntactic and phonological phenomena.From an historical perspective on parameter-setting theory to an introduction to its role in computational linguistics, neurolinguistics, and language change, the reader will find a critique of the most commonly made arguments, as well as an index of all the syntactic, phonological, lexical, and