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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:04:53
From: Lianne Taylor [ltaylor at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure: Becker

 


Title: The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure 
Subtitle: Animacy and Thematic Alignment 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/9781107007840 


Author: Misha Becker

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107007840 Pages: 330 Price: U.K. £ 65.00


Abstract:

This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment
of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic
structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please. The
answer lies in animacy: taking the premise that subjects are animate, the book
argues that children can exploit the occurrence of an inanimate subject as a
cue to a non-canonical structure, in which that subject is displaced (the book
is easy/*eager to read). The author uses evidence from a range of linguistic
subfields, including syntactic theory, typology, language processing,
conceptual development, language acquisition, and computational modeling,
exposing readers to these different kinds of data in an accessible way. 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. This is a must-read for researchers in
language acquisition, syntax, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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