On the acquisition of complex predicates : introduction to the special issue
There may be two approaches to diversifying the languages cited in child language acquisition research: a theoretical canon approach and a language-specific approach. The ‘theoretical canon’ approach recruits out-of-the-way languages into long-standing theoretical debates to either validate current...
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ftunivwestsyd:oai:researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au:uws_60580 2023-05-15T16:55:35+02:00 On the acquisition of complex predicates : introduction to the special issue Sarvasy, Hannah (R19492) 2021 print 7 https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237211026764 http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:60580 eng eng U.K., Sage Publications ARC CE140100041 & DE180101609 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE140100041 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE180101609 First Language--0142-7237--1740-2344 Vol. 41 Issue. 4 pp: 369-375 XXXXXX - Unknown journal article Text 2021 ftunivwestsyd https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237211026764 2021-12-20T23:26:18Z There may be two approaches to diversifying the languages cited in child language acquisition research: a theoretical canon approach and a language-specific approach. The ‘theoretical canon’ approach recruits out-of-the-way languages into long-standing theoretical debates to either validate current assumptions using a new language and population, or utilize a feature of the new language as a wedge with which to separate two opposing theories (see Cutler, 1985, on this notion in psycholinguistics). For instance, passive constructions have been known to be produced late by English-speaking children at least since Brown (1973), but studies show that children learning K’iche’ (Pye & Poz, 1988), Zulu (Suzman, 1987), Sesotho (Demuth, 1990), and Inuktitut (Allen & Crago, 1996) produce them relatively early, implying that language-specific factors like formation and frequency in the ambient language must be at play, not anything inherent about passives. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuktitut University of Western Sydney (UWS): Research Direct Cutler ENVELOPE(-60.981,-60.981,-62.612,-62.612) First Language 41 4 369 375 |
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There may be two approaches to diversifying the languages cited in child language acquisition research: a theoretical canon approach and a language-specific approach. The ‘theoretical canon’ approach recruits out-of-the-way languages into long-standing theoretical debates to either validate current assumptions using a new language and population, or utilize a feature of the new language as a wedge with which to separate two opposing theories (see Cutler, 1985, on this notion in psycholinguistics). For instance, passive constructions have been known to be produced late by English-speaking children at least since Brown (1973), but studies show that children learning K’iche’ (Pye & Poz, 1988), Zulu (Suzman, 1987), Sesotho (Demuth, 1990), and Inuktitut (Allen & Crago, 1996) produce them relatively early, implying that language-specific factors like formation and frequency in the ambient language must be at play, not anything inherent about passives. |
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