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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Teresa Satterfield argues convincingly that so-called `universal' premises guiding well-known parametric approaches greatly complicate attempts to construct an economical bilingual analysis. Further, she demonstrates the compatibility of more recent formulations in linguistic theory (i.e. the Minimalist Program) and studies on language learnability (Clark, 1992, 1993; Kapur, 1994) which present the view that while initially convincing, standard parameter models are potentially costly and less than effective in terms of monolinguals as well.
Using Clark's application of the Genetic Algorithm as a point of departure, Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge describes a number of computational simulations. These simulations not only demonstrate the robustness of the GA-as-language-learner, they offer a more detailed account of the parameter-setting task confronting the bilingual child while also making more precise predictions regarding the process of syntactic knowledge.
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Michigan, USA
Teresa Satterfield
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge
Book Subtitle: Extending the Principles and Parameters Approach
Authors: Teresa Satterfield
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5259-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8649-0Published: 31 October 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7398-8Published: 29 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5259-8Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 167
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Psychology, general, Comparative Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics