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008			170307s2016 enka f b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9781316644935 (pbk.)
040			_aStDuBDS _beng _cStDuBDS _erda _dBUEsh
082	0	4	_a415 _bBEC _222
100	1		_aBecker, Misha Karen, _d1973- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe acquisition of syntactic structure : _banimacy and thematic alignment / _cMisha Becker.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2016.
300			_axv, 324 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aCambridge studies in linguistics ; _v141
500			_aOriginally published: 2014.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThis book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please. The answer lies in animacy: taking the premise that subjects are animate, the book argues that children can exploit the occurrence of an inanimate subject as a cue to a non-canonical structure, in which that subject is displaced. The author uses evidence from a range of linguistic subfields, including syntactic theory, typology, language processing, conceptual development, language acquisition, and computational modeling, exposing readers to these different kinds of data in an accessible way. The theoretical claims of the book expand the well-known hypotheses of Syntactic and Semantic Bootstrapping, resulting in greater coverage of the core principles of language acquisition. This is a must-read for researchers in language acquisition, syntax, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics.
650		7	_aLanguage acquisition. _2BUEsh _931982
650		7	_aGrammar, Comparative and general _xAnimacy. _2BUEsh
650		7	_aGrammar, Comparative and general _xSyntax. _2BUEsh _939791
653			_bHHUUEENN _cSeptember2019
655			_vReading book
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