Misha Becker

The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains how children's early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781316644935
• ISBN-10: 1316644936
• Artikelnr.: 47722338

Autorenporträt

Misha Becker is an Associate Professor in the linguistics department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she has taught courses in linguistic theory and child language acquisition since 2002.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The syntax of displacing and non-displacing predicates
3. Argument hierarchies
4. Animacy and adult sentence processing
5. Animacy and children's language
6. Modeling the acquisition of displacing predicates
7. Conclusions and origins.