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Other children, other languages : issues in the theory of language acquisition

Title: Other children, other languages : issues in the theory of language acquisition / edited by Yonata Levy.
Publication: Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1994.

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Levy, Yonata.

Description

vii, 414 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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Note

Rev. papers of an international meeting held June 1991 in Jerusalem, Israel, under the auspices of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University.

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Contents

1. Introduction / Yonata Levy -- 2. Nondiscreteness and Variation in Child Language: Implications for Principle and Parameter Models of Language Development / Nina Hyams -- 3. Syntax-Semantics Mappings as an Explanation for Some Transitions in Language Development / Paul Bloom -- 4. Two Approaches to the Acquisition of Grammar / I. M. Schlesinger -- 5. The Acquisition of Functional Structure / Teun Hoekstra -- 6. The Acquisition of Italian Verb Morphology in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective / Elena Pizzuto and Maria Cristina Caselli -- 7. Developmental Perspectives on Transitivity: A Confluence of Cues / Ruth A. Berman -- 8. A Cross-Linguistic Approach to the Causative Alteration / Clifton Pye -- 9. Structural Dependency and the Acquisition of Grammatical Relations / Matthew Rispoli -- 10. The Place of Linguistic Theory in the Theory of Language Acquisition and Language Impairment / Thomas Roeper and Harry N. Seymour -- 11. Theoretical Implications of Inherited Dysphasia / Myrna L. Gopnik.
12. The Relationship Between Language and Social Cognition: Lessons From Autism / Helen Tager-Flusberg -- 13. Concluding Chapter: Modularity Reconsidered / Yonata Levy.

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0805813306

LCCN

93003936

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