Screen LibraryFunctional categories in language acquisition : self-organization of a dynamical system /
Main description: Diese Studie untersucht den Erwerb Funktionaler Kategorien aus der Perspektive der Selbstorganisation. Syntax emergiert durch eine bedeutende Bifurkation des dynamischen Sprachsystems. Dynamische Begriffe wie Vorl ufer, Oszillation, Symmetriebruch und Trigger sind wichtige konzeptu...
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Max Niemeyer Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Tübingen : |
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2011. ©2002 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Linguistische arbeiten ;
volume 456 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110923520 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110923520.jpg |
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Main description: Diese Studie untersucht den Erwerb Funktionaler Kategorien aus der Perspektive der Selbstorganisation. Syntax emergiert durch eine bedeutende Bifurkation des dynamischen Sprachsystems. Dynamische Begriffe wie Vorl ufer, Oszillation, Symmetriebruch und Trigger sind wichtige konzeptuelle und erkl rende Werkzeuge f r die Linguistik der fr hen Kindersprache, wie sie sich zeigen im Erwerb von Komposition, Kasus-Markierung, Finitheit, V2, w-Fragen, etc. Das Buch wendet sich an Spracherwerbsforscher aus unterschiedlichen theoretischen Lagern: generativ, funktional, konnektionistisch, indem es neue Antworten auf alte Fragen im Lichte einer neuartigen herausfordernden Theorie gibt: Selbstorganisation. Main description: 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. |
| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (ix, 318 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783110923520 |
| Index Number: | P118 |
| CLC: | H0 |
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15 Symmetry-Breakers and Predators vs. Matter and Prey: The Relation between Functional and Lexical Categories16 The Trigger; 16.1 Introduction; 16.2 The Trigger in Generative Models of Language Acquisition; 16.3 A Dynamical Trigger Conception; 16.4 After Triggering; 16.5 Summary: A Redefinition of the Trigger; Part D: Outlook; 17 Beyond Economy: Ecology; Abbreviations; Bibliography. 4.2 Time in Language Acquisition4.3 Three Factors of Language Acquisition; 4.4 Variations; 4.5 Continuity vs. Discontinuity; 4.6 Adult-centered vs. Child-centered Perspective; 4.7 Hysteresis; 4.8 Liminal Conclusions; Part B: Theme and Variation Self-Organization in Language Acquisition: Models, Data and Analyses; 5 Models of Layers and Levels of Syntactic Structures; 5.1 Lebeaux' Model of Levels of Representation: Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar; 5.2 Grimshaw's Extended Projection; 5.3 Outlook: Variation and Selection Revisited; 6 Case Morphology. 6.1 Systemic Variation in the Acquisition of German Genitive Morphology7 Finiteness, Non-Finiteness, Verb Placement, and Negation; 7.1 Variation in the I-System; 8 The Acquisition of German Wh-Questions: Aspects of Variation in the C-System; 8.1 Valle; 8.2 Tilman; 9 The Position of Adjuncts; 10 Syntactic Surface Blends; 11 Functional Neologisms, Proto-Functional Categories, or, Living Dinosaurs; 12 Precursors: Composition; 12.1 Precursors; 12.2 Compounding; Part C: Dynamical Principles and Notions in Language Acquisition; 13 Oscillations; 14 Bootstrapping. Part A: Self-Organization and Language Acquisition; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Definitions of Self-Organization; 1.2 Self-Organization of Language; 1.3 Methodology and Method; 1.4 A Theory of the Data; 2 Language Acquisition Research in Generative Grammar: The Classical Models; 2.1 The Instantaneous Model of Language Acquisition; 2.2 The Continuity Hypothesis; 2.3 Maturation; 3 Language Acquisition Research in Generative Grammar: New Models; 3.1 Lexical vs. Functional Categories: The Structure-Building Hypothesis; 3.2 The Building-Block Model; 4 Liminalia; 4.1 Introduction. |