The Acquisition Of Syntactic Structure: Animacy And Thematic Alignment (Cambridge Studies In Linguistics, Series Number 141)

This book explains how children's early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure. The theoretical claims of the book expand the well-known hypotheses of syntactic and semantic bootstrapping, resulting in greater coverage of the core principles of language acquisition.

• • Author: Misha Becker
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Apr 03, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 342 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1107007844
• • ISBN-13: 9781107007840