The Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Early PredicatesCambridge Scholars Publishing, 11 jun 2018 - 283 pagina's This book presents theoretical and experimental analyses of the nature of early verbs. At around the age of two years old, children start to combine words and produce their first verbs. Verbal items appear later than nouns in a child’s speech and refer to the relational concepts in the world that are represented in syntax through the argument structure. The central set of data investigated here is based on the analysis of the features of first verbal productions in Italian. Since the appearance of verbs implies the mastery of a mapping procedure between syntactic positions and semantic roles, the syntactic regularities found for each lexical verb class suggest that the relation at the syntax-semantics interface is well-established early on. The non-adult-like sentences are those which involve the mastery of the scope-discourse semantic interface or higher functional syntactic categories. The analysis of the delay in the production and comprehension of some constructions here uncovers some general characteristics of language acquisition devices. |
Inhoudsopgave
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Chapter Two | 54 |
Chapter Three | 89 |
Chapter Four | 134 |
Chapter Five | 189 |
References | 199 |
Appendix I | 218 |
Appendix II | 242 |
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acquisition adults allow analysis appear approaches argues arguments aspect assigned atelic auxiliaries bootstrapping Chapter checked child claim completed context Contrastive statistic corpus Count Percentage Count depending derivation describe determine direct distribution early early stages effects elements encoded English event example experiment expressed fact Figure forms functional given grammar higher hypothesis idiosyncratic interface internal interpretation involved Italian languages later learning lexical lexicon linguistic linked lower mapping morphology move nouns null subjects object operation overt subjects passato prossimo pattern Percentage Count Percentage perfective performed position post-verbal subjects pre-verbal subjects predicates presented Press produce projection properties proposal reading refer relations represented responsible role root selection semantic sentences similar situation speech spell-out domain spontaneous stage statistic structural meaning syntactic syntax Table task telic tense transitives types unaccusatives unergatives University verb classes verb-meaning verbal