Investigations in Universal Grammar Download

Author: Stephen Crain
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ISBN: 0262531801
Category: Medical

Investigations in Universal Grammar: A Guide to Experiments on the Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics (Language, Speech, and Communication)

This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. Download Investigations in Universal Grammar medical books for free.
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. In the first section of the book, the authors examine the fundamental assumptions that guide research in this area; they Get Investigations in Universal Grammar our bestseller medical books.

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