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From Syntax to Discourse

Pronominal Clitics, Null Subjects and Infinitives in Child Language

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  1. Cornelia Hamann

    1. University of Tübingen, Tübingen;, Germany
      University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (SITP, volume 29)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction to Language Acquisition

    • Cornelia Hamann
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Acquisition of the Pronominal System in French — the Production of Subject and Object Clitics

    • Cornelia Hamann
    Pages 21-63

  4. The Binding Principles and Acquisition Research

    • Cornelia Hamann
    Pages 65-90

  5. Romance Clitics and Binding

    • Cornelia Hamann
    Pages 91-112

  6. Two Experiments on Binding Effects With French Clitic Pronouns

    • Cornelia Hamann
    Pages 113-148

  7. Children’s Null Subjects and Infinitives

    • Cornelia Hamann
    Pages 149-175

  8. Theoretical Approaches to Infinitives and Null Subjects

    • Cornelia Hamann
    Pages 177-211

  9. Empirical Data and The Evaluation of Approaches

    • Cornelia Hamann
    Pages 213-249

  10. Wh-Questions : Infinitives, Null Subjects and the Problem of Interpretation

    • Cornelia Hamann
    Pages 251-283

  11. Other Areas of Investigation: Negation and Late Argument Drop

    • Cornelia Hamann
    Pages 285-310

  12. Discourse Anchorage and the CP

    • Cornelia Hamann
    Pages 311-330

  13. Child Language: From Syntax to Discourse

    • Cornelia Hamann
    Pages 331-336

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 337-372
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claim is that such morphological processes can be learnt without symbolization and innate knowledge. See Rumelhart and McClelland (1986) for the original model of past tense acquisition, Plunkett and Marchman (1993), Nakisa, Plunkett and Hahn (1996) and Elman et al. (1996) for developments and extensions to other morphological processes, and Marcus et al. (1992) and Pinker and Prince (1988) for criticism. One line of investigation supporting the view of language as a genetic endowment is closely linked to traditional research on language acquisition and argues as follows: If language is innate there must be phenomena that should be accessible from birth in one form or the other. Thus it is clear that the language of children, especially young children and preferably babies should be investigated. As babies unfortunately don't talk, the abilities that are available from birth must be established in ways different from the usual linguistic analysis. Psycholinguistic research of the last few years has shown that at the age of 4 and 8 months and even during their first week of life children already have important language skills. From the fourth day, infants distinguish their mother tongue from other languages. From the first months children prefer the sound of speech to 'other noise'. At the age of 4 months, infants prefer pauses at syntactic boundaries to random pauses.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Tübingen, Tübingen;, Germany

    Cornelia Hamann

  • University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Cornelia Hamann

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Syntax to Discourse

  • Book Subtitle: Pronominal Clitics, Null Subjects and Infinitives in Child Language

  • Authors: Cornelia Hamann

  • Series Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0432-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0439-1Published: 31 January 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0440-7Published: 31 January 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0432-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1873-0043

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1788

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 372

  • Topics: Psycholinguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Germanic Languages, Romance Languages

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