Semantics in Acquisition (Studies in Theoretical by VEERLE VAN GEENHOVEN (Editor) PDF

By VEERLE VAN GEENHOVEN (Editor)

ISBN-10: 1402044844

ISBN-13: 9781402044847

ISBN-10: 1402044852

ISBN-13: 9781402044854

This quantity includes a choice of writings that specializes in semantic phenomena and their interpretation within the research of the language of a learner. the range of phenomena which are addressed is mammoth: temporal point and demanding, specificity, quantification, scope, finiteness, concentration constitution, and concentration debris. The variety of languages within which those phenomena are investigated is massive in addition: Dutch, English, German, Inuktitut, Italian, eastern, and varnish, to call a number of. the amount creates a theoretical in addition to an empirical bridge among semantic learn at the one hand and psycholinguistic acquisition reports at the different.

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One can multiply examples by the dozens in familiar and unfamiliar languages alike, and, as usual, when one looks for something like this, it seems to be everywhere. The Swahili negative past ku occurring right next to the infinitival marker ku reduces to a single ku- prefix, yet both meanings remain. In certain Turkish word forms (in the instance of NPs like their books where both the possessors and things possessed are plural) two plurals ‘ought’ to appear in a row, but only one appears; there are, however, two plurals, semantically.

It is not impossible without a DP because, as Brun & Avrutin (2001) show, it is possible to define specificity by movement rather than by morphology. It is simply not a natural stage in the way that nonspecificity is a natural stage because of Default Economy representations. In sum, children do not randomly explore other grammars: There is a fundamental asymmetry in the acquisition of grammars that reflects a UG division: (A) Some grammars have rich Determiner Systems (overt DP) (B) Some grammars have no Determiners (NP only) The DP itself, we argue, is projected by Specificity and therefore does not require an article and can house Proper Names.

5 Finally, Schafer & de Villiers (2000) found a similar response with Smith College students. When contrastive sets were present, a definite was chosen for a member of a set: (36) Three ducks and two dogs were walking across a bridge. One of the animals fell off the bridge and said Quack. Guess which or what was it? 50 TOM ROEPER While 70% gave a duck as an answer 30% said the duck. This suggests that this may remain as a residual grammatical option in adult English as well. By contrast, we do not believe that the Unique Referent option would constitute a stage of acquisition in an Asian language without articles.

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