31.3731, Books: Direct Objects and Language Acquisition: Pérez-Leroux, Pirvulescu, Roberge

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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:16:59
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Direct Objects and Language Acquisition: Pérez-Leroux, Pirvulescu, Roberge

 


Title: Direct Objects and Language Acquisition 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 152  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/direct-objects-and-language-acquisition?format=PB 


Author: Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux
Author: Mihaela Pirvulescu
Author: Yves Roberge

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108941013 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108941013 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108941013 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Direct object omission is a general occurrence, observed in varying degrees
across the world's languages. The expression of verbal transitivity in small
children begins with the regular use of verbs without their object, even where
object omissions are illicit in the ambient language. Grounded in generative
grammar and learnability theory, this book presents a comprehensive view of
experimental approaches to object acquisition, and is the first to examine how
children rely on the lexical, structural and pragmatic components to unravel
the system. The results presented lead to the hypothesis that missing objects
in child language should not be seen as a deficit but as a continuous process
of knowledge integration. The book argues for a new model of how this aspect
of grammar is innately represented from birth. Ideal reading for advanced
students and researchers in language acquisition and syntactic theory, the
book's opening and closing chapters are also suitable for non-specialist
readers.

1. Missing objects in child language; 2. From the missing to the invisible; 3.
Rome leads to all roads; 4. Interpreting the missing object; 5. How unusual is
your object?; 6. Conclusion.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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