Parameter Setting by Thomas Roeper
In May 1985 the University of Massachusetts held the first conference on the parameter setting model of grammar and acquisition. The conference was conceived in the belief that there is a new possibility of tightly connecting grammatical studies and language acquisition studies, and that this new possibility has grown out of the new generation of ideas about the relation of Universal Grammar to the grammar of particular languages. The papers in this volume are all concerned in one way or another with the 'parametric' model of grammar, and with its role in explaining the acquisition of language. Before summarizing the accompanying papers, I would like to sketch the intellectual background of these new ideas. It has long been the acknowledged goal of grammatical theorists to explicate the relation between the experience of the child and the knowledge of the adult. Somehow, the child selects a unique grammar (by assumption) compatible with a random partially unreliable sample of some language. In the earliest work in generative grammar, starting with Chomsky's Aspects, and extending to such works as Jackendoffs Lexicalist Syntax (1977), the model of this account was the formal evaluation metric, accompanied by a general rule writing system. The model of acquisition was the following: the child composed a grammar by writing rules in the rule writing system, under the constraint that the rules must be compatible with the data, and that the grammar must be the one most highly valued by the evaluation metric.-
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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Language Processing and Language Acquisition
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Linguistic Theory in Second Language Acquisition
`These papers represent the best current thinking by linguists of how contemporary theories of grammar can help to explain real time acquisitionThe essays are both theoretically sensitive and empirically reasonable. Roeper and Williams' collection will be useful to psychologists and linguists alike.'
Norbert Hornstein, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
Norbert Hornstein, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
Williams, Edwin: - Edwin Williams is Professor of Linguistics at Princeton University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789027723161 |
| ISBN 10 | 9027723168 |
| Title | Parameter Setting |
| Author | Thomas Roeper |
| Series | Studies In Theoretical Psycholinguistics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Year published | 1986-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 253 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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