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Development of the syntax-discourse interface
- Title
- Development of the syntax-discourse interface / by Sergey Avrutin.
- Author
- Avrutin, Sergey.
- Publication
- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | P291 .A88 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 213 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The main focus of the book is development of referential abilities in young children. A number of findings suggest that errors exhibited by young children in various experiments and spontaneous speech result from the inability to implement discourse-related knowledge. It is further argued that the deficiency is due to the lack of language specific processing resources characteristic for young children. In order to support the lack of processing resources argument, certain similarities between the language of children and Broca's aphasics are also discussed."--BOOK JACKET. "A new theoretical model of the syntax-discourse interface is presented, and it is shown how the proposed model can explain various psycholinguistic findings."--Jacket.
- "The book is intended for scholars and graduate students working in the field of language acquisition and language impairment. It may also be of interest to linguists whose work focuses on the theory of syntax-discourse interface."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics ; v. 23
- Uniform Title
- Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics ; v. 23.
- Subject
- Note
- A revision and extension of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Establishing Reference -- Pronominals in Adult and Child Speech -- Pronominals in Natural Languages -- Previous Acquisition Results -- Syntax, Discourse and Interpretation of Pronominals -- General Model -- Syntactic Constraints and Interpretation of Indices -- File Change Semantics -- Interpretation of Indices in Syntax and Discourse -- Various Uses of Definite NPs -- Incorporation and Accommodation -- Constraints on Bridging -- Anomalous Indexation -- Principle A and Principle B Constructions -- Good Performance with Pronouns -- Weak Pronouns -- Principle C Constructions -- Experimental Evidence for the Proposed Model -- Experimental Evidence for the Existence of two Different Mechanisms: Incorporation and Accommodation -- Deictic Use of Definite NPs in Children's Discourse -- Pronominalization in Children's Discourse -- Children's Use of R-expressions -- Limitations of Inferential Capacity -- Possessive Pronouns and Reflexives in Russian -- Overview of Russian Possessives -- Experimental Results -- Plural Pronouns -- Distributivity and Binding in Child Grammar -- Plural Pronouns -- Experiment -- Results -- Children's Interpretation of the Discourse-dependent Reflexives -- The Standard Binding Theory, Reflexivity and Logophors -- Locative PPs and "Picture NPs" -- General Method -- Experiment 1: Reflexives in Locative PPs -- Experiment Two: Reflexives in "Picture NPs" -- Discourse-Based Analyses of Root Infinitives -- The Data -- Hyams' Underspecification Theory of Root Infinitives -- Root Infinitives in Adult Russian.
- ISBN
- 0792359364
- 9780792359364
- LCCN
- 99041785
- OCLC
- ocm42021485
- 42021485
- SCSB-8912746
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library