Variation in the Input: Studies in the Acquisition of Word Order

By Marit Westergaard, Kristine Bentzen, Anderssen

Book Overview

Introduction, Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen and Marit Westergaard.- Optional Illusions, Andrea Gualmini.- Optional Doubly-filled Complementizers (DFCs) in Wh-complements in Child and Adult Swiss German, Manuela Sch?nenberger.- The Acquisitionof Adjectival Ordering in Italian, Anna Cardinaletti and Giuliana Giusti.- Input Factors in Early Verb Acquisition: Do Word Frequency and Word Order Variability of Verbs Matter? Anja Kielburg an Petra Schultz.- Word Order in the Development of Dative Constructions: A Comparison of Cantonese and English, Chloe Chenjie Gu.- Using Early ASL Word Order to Shed Light on Word Order Variabiltiy in Sign Language, Deborah Chen Pichler.- Variable Word Order in Child Greek, Dina Kapetangianni.- Optional Scrambling is not Random: Evidence from English-Ukrainian Acquisition, Roksolana Mykhaylyk and Heejeong Ko.- The Acquisition of Apparent Optionality: The Word Order in Subject-and Object Shift Constructions in Norwegian, Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen, Yulia Rodina and Marit Westergaard.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048192064
• ISBN13: 9789048192069
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"