Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition

413 Pages·2011·3.49 MB·English

by  Jill de Villiers

Handbook of Generative Approaches
to Language Acquisition
STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
VOLUmE 41
Managing Editors
Lyn Frazier, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Thomas Roeper, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Kenneth Wexler, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
Editorial Board
Robert Berwick, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
matthew Crocker, Saarland University, Germany
Janet Dean Fodor, City University of New York, New York
Angela Friederici, Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
merrill Garrett, University of Arizona, Tucson
Lila Gleitman, School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Chris Kennedy, Northwestern University, Illinois
manfred Krifka, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland
Yukio Otsu, Keio University, Tokyo
Andrew Radford, University of Essex, U.K.
For further volumes:
http://www.springer.com/series/6555
Jill de Villiers • Tom Roeper
Editors
Handbook of Generative
Approaches to Language
Acquisition
Editors
Jill de Villiers Tom Roeper
Department of Psychology Linguistics Department
Smith College University of massachusetts at Amherst
Bass Hall 401 226 South College
Northampton, mA 01063 150 Hicks Way
USA Amherst, mA 01003
[e-mail] USA
[e-mail]
ISSN 1873-0043
ISBN 978-94-007-1687-2 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1688-9
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1688-9
Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011935733
© Springer Science+Business media B.V. 2011
No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any
means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written
permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose
of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work
Printed on acid-free paper
Springer is part of Springer Science+Business media (www.springer.com)
Contents
Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1
Jill de Villiers and Tom Roeper
Missing Subjects in Early Child Language .................................................. 13
Nina Hyams
Grammatical Computation in the Optional Infinitive Stage ...................... 53
Ken Wexler
Computational Models of Language Acquisition......................................... 119
Charles Yang
The Acquisition of the Passive ....................................................................... 155
Kamil Ud Deen
The Acquisition Path for Wh-Questions ....................................................... 189
Tom Roeper and Jill de Villiers
Binding and Coreference: Views from Child Language .............................. 247
Cornelia Hamann
Universal Grammar and the Acquisition of Japanese Syntax .................... 291
Koji Sugisaki and Yukio Otsu
Studying Language Acquisition Through the Prism of Isomorphism ....... 319
Julien musolino
Acquiring Knowledge of Universal Quantification ...................................... 351
William Philip
Index ................................................................................................................. 395
v

Contributors
Jill de Villiers Departments of Psychology and Philosophy, Smith College, Bass
Hall 401, Northampton, mA, USA, [e-mail]
Kamil Ud Deen Linguistics Department, University of Hawaii, 1890 East-West
Road, moore Hall #559, Honolulu HI 96822, USA, [e-mail]
Cornelia Hamann Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg Fakultät III,
Institut für Fremdsprachenphilologien, Seminar für Anglistik/Amerikanistik
D-26111, Oldenburg, Germany, [e-mail]
Nina Hyams Linguistics Department, UCLA, 3125 Campbell Hall, Los Angeles
CA 90095-1543, USA, [e-mail]
Julien Musolino Psychology Department, Rutgers University, Busch Campus 152
Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020, USA, [e-mail]
Yukio Otsu Linguistics, Keio University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan minato, Tokyo,
Japan, [e-mail]
William Philip Linguistics, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands,
[e-mail]
Tom Roeper Linguistics Department, 226 South College, University of
massachusetts at Amherst, 150 Hicks Way, Amherst, mA, USA, roeper@linguist.
umass.edu
Koji Sugisaki mie University, Tsu, mie, Japan, [e-mail]
Ken Wexler mIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences, 77 massachusetts Avenue, 46-2005,
Cambridge, mA 02139, USA, [e-mail]
Charles Yang Department of Linguistics & Computer Science, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, [e-mail]
vii