pragmatic bootstrapping

[Anat Ninio]

Dear List,

Sorry to have sent this to the whole list by mistake, but actually I'd 
love to hear from anybody who knows of studies that can be said to test 
the hypothesis that children learn syntax by "pragmatic bootstrapping".

Thanks,

Anat Ninio


On 17-03-11 06:01, Anat Ninio wrote:
> Hi Nameera,
>
> Thanks a lot!  Absolutely coincidentally this very minute I'm reading 
> your 2008 (or is it 2009?) encyclopedia entry
>
> Akhtar, N., & Herold, K. (2008). Pragmatic development. In M. M. Haith 
> & J. B. Benson (Eds.), /Encyclopedia of infant and early childhood 
> development,/ Vol. /2/ (pp. 572-581). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
>
> which I want to cite for a research proposal for an European grant. 
> First, is it 2008 or 2009? Second, you say
>
> "We know of no empirical research, however, that has directly 
> addressed the question of whether children learn syntactic 
> constructions in the same way as they learn words; that is,through 
> "pragmatic bootstrapping" or attention to speakers' intentions."(p.319)
>
> Would you still say so? Or is there some new study that you know of 
> that I should mention? Any newer publication of yours on this point?
>
> Thanks a lot and see you in SRCD for sure,
>
> Anat
>
>
> On 17-03-11 05:14, nameera akhtar wrote:
>> congratulations, anat!
>>
>> hope to see you at srcd,
>>
>> nameera
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Anat Ninio 
>> <msninio at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il 
>> <mailto:msninio at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>> wrote:
>>
>>     Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>>
>>     I'm very happy to be able to announce the publication of my new
>>     book by Oxford University Press.  It is entitled "Syntactic
>>     development, its input and output" and a description of it, as
>>     well as a link to the Introduction, can be found on the
>>     publisher's on-line catalogue at
>>     http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199565962.do
>>
>>     I hope you'll like it!
>>
>>     Anat Ninio
>>
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