16.1917, Books: Lang Acquisition/Syntax/Phonology: Ayoun

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Date: 21-Jun-2005
From: Jennifer Lovel < jlovel at continuumbooks.com >
Subject: Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition: Ayoun 

	
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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:40:13
From: Jennifer Lovel < jlovel at continuumbooks.com >
Subject: Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition: Ayoun 
 



Title: Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition 
Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
	   http://www.continuumbooks.com
	
Author: Dalila Ayoun, University of Arizona

Paperback: ISBN: 0826476074 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 25


Abstract:

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 morphological parameters presented in the literature to date.
A closer look at the theory itself addresses the following questions: What
does a parameter-setting approach to language acquisition entail? What are
the underpinnings of the theory? What issues and problems remain to be solved?

The empirical studies carried out to test the null subject parameter and
verb movement parameter are reviewed to re-examine long-standing
theoretical assumptions as well as the learnability implications for first
and second language acquisition. 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
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