The Ups and Downs of Child Language : Experimental Studies on Children's Knowledge of Entailment Relationships and Polarity Phenomena
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
ISBN-10
0415512948
ISBN-13
9780415512947
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 12th, 2011
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
380 grams
Product Classification:
Child & developmental psychology
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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 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.
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.
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