Author

Contributions

  • Thornton, Rosalind. - Contributor

Publication

1998 - MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

85,500 words, Guess

Page Count

342 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC401/.93
  • LCCP118.15 .C73 1998

Description

This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two experimental techniques for assessing children's linguistic competence; the Elicited Production task, a production task, and the Truth Value Judgment task, a comprehension task. Their methodologies are designed to overcome the numerous obstacles to empirical investigation of children's language competence. They produce research results that are more reproducible and less likely to be dismissed as an artifact of improper experimental procedure.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Language, speech, and communication

Other Editions

  • Investigations in universal grammarMIT Press1998

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