Acquisition of syntactic structure, the: animacy and thematic alignment
Auteur :
Becker, Misha
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781316644935
Date de publication :
16 mars 2017
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,2 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
500 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book explains how children's early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure. 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.