Syntactic Development presents a broad critical survey of the research literature on child language development. Giving balanced coverage to both theoretical an

This text places the syntactic learning process under close scrutiny. Its focus is on the characteristics of linguistic input and the resultant output, which, i

First published in 1973, this important work was the first systematic attempt to apply theoretical and methodological tools developed in America to the acquisit

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In this book, I address several issues of child linguistic development from the perspective of the syntax -discourse interface. Traditionally, language acquisit