28.1760, Books: The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure: Becker
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:34:46
From: Jack Groutage [jgroutage 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 141
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://cambridge.org
Author: Misha Becker
Paperback: ISBN: 9781316644935 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 35.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781316644935 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781316644935 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 31.19
Abstract:
Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.
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.
1. Introduction; 2. The syntax of displacing and non-displacing predicates; 3.
Argument hierarchies; 4. Animacy and adult sentence processing; 5. Animacy and
children's language; 6. Modeling the acquisition of displacing predicates; 7.
Conclusions and origins.
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
General Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Psycholinguistics
Syntax
Written In: English (eng)
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