Syntactic Development: Its Input and Output

by Anat Ninio

Anat Ninio's important new book places the syntactic learning process under close scrutiny. The focus of the book is on the characteristics of linguistic input and the resultant output, which, she shows, do not necessarily follow the orderly uniform processes assumed by some versions of formalistic linguistic theory.
Unique to this book is its reliance on very large English corpora of parental speech and child utterances, revealing surprising...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199565961
• ISBN13: 9780199565962
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 6.4"