UID:
almahu_9949481499802882
Umfang:
1 online resource (318 p.)
Ausgabe:
Reprint 2011
ISBN:
9783110923520
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9783110238570
Serie:
Linguistische Arbeiten , 456
Inhalt:
This study investigates the acquisition of Functional Categories (e.g., INFL (AGR, TNS), DET, COMP) from the perspective of self-organization in generative grammar. Language is conceived of as a dynamical system which evolves in time and bifurcates when critical thresholds are reached. The emergence of syntax as evidenced by the acquisition of Functional Categories is the major bifurcation in child language acquisition. Target values of syntactic parameters are attractors which children approach on individual trajectories. A proposed tripartite scenario of change - from a simple stable state A, via symmetry-breaking in a liminal phase B characterized by variation, to a new complex stable state C - accounts for the dynamics in early grammatical development. Traditional generative issues, such as the acquisition of case-marking, finiteness, V2, and wh-questions, are discussed as well as new issues, such as functional neologisms, and sentential blends. Dynamical notions like precursor, oscillation, symmetry-breaking, and trigger are important explanatory tools. The growing child phrase marker is a fractal mental object which represents syntactic information by way of self-similar extended projections. The book addresses researchers in language acquisition from various theoretical camps: generative, functional, connectionist, by giving new answers to old questions in the light of a novel challenging theory: self-organization.
Inhalt:
This study investigates the acquisition of Functional Categories from the perspective of self-organization. Syntax emerges through a major bifurcation of the dynamical language system. Dynamical notions such as precursor, oscillation, symmetry-breaking, and trigger are explanatory tools for the dynamics of early child language as evidenced in the acquisition of compounding, case-marking, finiteness, V2, wh-questions, etc. The book addresses researchers from various theoretical camps: generative, functional, connectionist, by giving new answers to old questions in the light of a novel challenging theory: self-organization.
Anmerkung:
I-X --
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Part A: Self-Organization and Language Acquisition --
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1 Introduction --
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2 Language Acquisition Research in Generative Grammar: The Classical Models --
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3 Language Acquisition Research in Generative Grammar: New Models --
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4 Liminalia --
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Part B: Theme and Variation. Self-Organization in Language Acquisition: Models, Data and Analyses --
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5 Models of Layers and Levels of Syntactic Structures --
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6 Case Morphology --
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7 Finiteness, Non-Finiteness, Verb Placement, and Negation --
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8 The Acquisition of German Wh-Questions: Aspects of Variation in the C-System --
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9 The Position of Adjuncts --
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10 Syntactic Surface Blends --
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11 Functional Neologisms, Proto-Functional Categories, or, Living Dinosaurs --
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12 Precursors: Composition --
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Part C: Dynamical Principles and Notions in Language Acquisition --
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13 Oscillations --
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14 Bootstrapping --
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15 Symmetry-Breakers and Predators vs. Matter and Prey: The Relation between Functional and Lexical Categories --
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16 The Trigger --
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Part D: Outlook --
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17 Beyond Economy: Ecology --
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Abbreviations --
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Bibliography
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
In:
DGBA Backlist Linguistics and Semiotics 2000-2014 (EN), De Gruyter, 9783110238457
In:
DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110636970
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783484304567
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
DOI:
10.1515/9783110923520
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923520
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110923520
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