What is language development? : rationalist, empiricist, and pragmatist approaches to the acquisition of syntax /
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| Author / Creator: | Russell, James, 1948- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. |
| Description: | xiv, 555 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5568422 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Three psychologies: Rationalist, empiricist, and pragmatist
- 1.1. Rationalism
- 1.2. Empiricism
- 1.3. Pragmatism
- 1.4. Taking stock
- Part 2. Syntactic nativism: Language development within rationalism
- 2.1. The 'psychological reality' of the syntactic level of representation: From phrase structures to X-bar grammar
- 2.2. The road to minimalism - transformational grammar
- 2.3. The Minimalist Programme
- 2.4. Assessement for the time being
- 2.5. The question of evidence: Experiments with young children
- 2.6. Evidence for syntactic modularity from atypical development: children with specific learning impairment
- 2.7. Taking stock
- Part 3. Empiricist connectionism as a theory of language development
- 3.1. Do connectionist representations have 'casual roles'? Two connectionist models of production
- 3.2. Trying to replace competence with statistical regularity: The limits and uses of cue learning
- 3.3. Variables: In thought, language, and in connectionist modelling
- 3.4. The clear utility of associative models - and more on their overreaching
- 3.5. Connectionism and the conceptual-intentional systems
- 3.6. Some new moves in modelling production
- 3.7. Taking stock
- Part 4. The pragmatist approach to language acquisition
- 4.1. Two functionalist grammars
- 4.2. Are functionalist theories better placed to explain acquisition than generativist ones?
- 4.3. Explaining development: cognitive-functionalist theory and data - past and present
- 4.4. Is semantic knowledge sufficient or only necessary? Semantic bootstrapping versus semantic assimilation
- 4.5. Does an evolutionary perspective reveal the strengths of the pragmatist approach?
- 4.6. Taking stockReferences
