Language Processing and Language Acquisition by Lyn Frazier
Studies of language acqUiSItion have largely ignored processing prin- ciples and mechanisms. Not surprisingly, questions concerning the analysis of an informative linguistic input - the potential evidence for grammatical parameter setting - have also been ignored. Especially in linguistic approaches to language acquisition, the role of language processing has not been prominent. With few exceptions (e. g. Goodluck and Tavakolian, 1982; Pinker, 1984) discussions of language perform- ance tend to arise only when experimental debris, the artifact of some experiment, needs to be cleared away. Consequently, language pro- cessing has been viewed as a collection of rather uninteresting perform- ance factors obscuring the true object of interest, namely, grammar acquisition. On those occasions when parsing strategies have been incorporated into accounts of language development, they have often been discussed as vague preferences, not open to rigorous analysis. In principle, however, theories of language comprehension can and should be subjected to the same criteria of explicitness and explanatoriness as other theories, e. g., theories of grammar. Thus their peripheral role in accounts of language development may reflect accidental factors, rather than any inherent fuzziness or irrelevance to the language acquisition problem. It seems probable that an explicit model of the way(s) processing routines are applied in acquisition would help solve some central problems of grammar acquisition, since these routines regulate the application of grammatical knowledge to novel inputs.-
Toward Second Language Acquisition
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The Acquisition of Verb Placement
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Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing
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The Processing of Tense
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Case, Word Order and Prominence
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Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition
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Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora
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New Trends in Language Acquisition Within the Generative Perspective
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Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification
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Processing and Producing Head-final Structures
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Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions
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German Sentence Processing
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Island Constraints
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The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization
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Development of the Syntax-Discourse Interface
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Reanalysis in Sentence Processing
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Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages
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Case and Linking in Language Comprehension
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Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing
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On the Definition of Binding Domains in Spanish
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Universal Grammar and American Sign Language
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Language Learnability and L2 Phonology
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Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Language Processing
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From Syntax to Discourse
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Code-switching in Bilingual Children
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Cross-linguistic Variation in Sentence Processing
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Syntactic Parsing Strategies in Italian
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Computational Psycholinguistics
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A Linguistic Investigation of Aphasic Chinese Speech
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The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar:
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Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty
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On Sentence Interpretation
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Parameter Setting
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Linguistic Theory in Second Language Acquisition
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| ISBN 13 | 9780792306603 |
| ISBN 10 | 0792306600 |
| Title | Language Processing and Language Acquisition |
| Author | Lyn Frazier |
| Series | Studies In Theoretical Psycholinguistics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| Year published | 1990-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 398 |
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