Functional Categories in Language Acquisition: Self-Organization of a Dynamical System

Annette Hohenberger

Published by Max Niemeyer Verlag 2002

Functional Categories in Language Acquisition

Self-Organization of a Dynamical System

Annette Hohenberger

Volume 456 in the series Linguistische Arbeiten

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923520

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About this book

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.

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I-X Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Part A: Self-Organization and Language Acquisition
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Language Acquisition Research in Generative Grammar: The Classical Models Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3 Language Acquisition Research in Generative Grammar: New Models Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
4 Liminalia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Part B: Theme and Variation. Self-Organization in Language Acquisition: Models, Data and Analyses
5 Models of Layers and Levels of Syntactic Structures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
6 Case Morphology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
7 Finiteness, Non-Finiteness, Verb Placement, and Negation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
8 The Acquisition of German Wh-Questions: Aspects of Variation in the C-System Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
9 The Position of Adjuncts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
10 Syntactic Surface Blends Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
11 Functional Neologisms, Proto-Functional Categories, or, Living Dinosaurs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
12 Precursors: Composition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Part C: Dynamical Principles and Notions in Language Acquisition
13 Oscillations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
14 Bootstrapping Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
15 Symmetry-Breakers and Predators vs. Matter and Prey: The Relation between Functional and Lexical Categories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
16 The Trigger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Part D: Outlook
17 Beyond Economy: Ecology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag
Edition: Reprint 2011
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 318

eBook

Published: April 20, 2011
ISBN: 9783110923520

Hardcover

Published: March 19, 2002
ISBN: 9783484304567