1st Edition
The Ups and Downs of Child Language Experimental Studies on Children's Knowledge of Entailment Relationships and Polarity Phenomena
By Andrea Gualmini
Copyright 2005
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The new experimental evidence presented in The Ups and Downs of Child Language shows that it is possible to extend research on child language to children's semantic competence, adopting the same theoretical framework that has proven useful to the study of children's syntactic competence. Andrea Gualmini investigates the role of entailment relations for child language in a series of interconnected... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: Language and Acquisition Chapter 2: Entailment and Polarity Phenomena in Child Language Chapter 3: The Structure of Child Language Chapter 4: Asymmetries of Child Language Chapter 5: Structure and Beyond Chapter 6: The Structure of the Universal Asymmetry and Beyond Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Appendix F Appendix G References Index
Biography
Andrea Gualmini is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Linguistics at M.I.T. He received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Maryland.
