Acquisition of Syntactic Structure: Animacy and Thematic Alignment by Misha Beck

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Book Title
Acquisition of Syntactic Structure
ISBN-13
9781316644935
ISBN
9781316644935
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1316644936
ISBN-13
9781316644935
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235451336

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
342 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Acquisition of Syntactic Structure : Animacy and Thematic Alignment
Publication Year
2017
Subject
Linguistics / Syntax, Linguistics / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Author
Misha Becker
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"This book is a major milestone for acquisition research in the "strict" sense: what exactly does the adult know, and how do children acquire that knowledge? Becker is conversant with an unusually broad range of disciplines, including generative grammar, developmental psychology, and computational modeling. This enables her to support the book's central thesis - that children use animacy cues for detecting syntactic displacement - with strong, converging evidence from cross-linguistic comparisons, adult psycholinguistics, Bayesian models, transcripts of child-directed speech, and laboratory experiments with children." William Snyder, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Connecticut
Series Volume Number
Series Number 141
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
415
Table Of Content
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.
Synopsis
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., This book explains how children's early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure. 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.
LC Classification Number
P118

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