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 experiments assessing children's negation and their
interpretation of words like or, every, and some. Comparing his
study to other models of language acquisition and characterizing
the observed differences between children and adults, Gualmini
asserts that even in the domain of semantic competence there is no
reason to assume that child language differs from adult language in
ways that would exceed the boundary conditions imposed by Universal
Grammar.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics |
| Release date: |
September 2011 |
| First published: |
2005 |
| Authors: |
Andrea Gualmini
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
208 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-51294-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Language & linguistics >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-415-51294-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780415512947 |
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