从语言学的角度看语言习得

This text is an up-to-date introduction to language acquisition. designed to meet the needs of advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in linguistics and cognitive science. It is the first language acquisition text to be written from the perspctive of recent theoretical linguistics, and uses Chomskyan generative grammar as a framework for description. Taking models and analyses from generative phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, Professor goodluck describes children's language acquisition using examples from a variety of languages. Further chapters take up central questions concerning cognitive mechanisms by which children process language and form rules, the nature of the input to the language learner, and the relation between language development and other aspects of cognitive development. The book is extensively illustrated with models and figures, and each chapter is followed by questions for discussion and suggestions for further reading. It also includes a full bibliography.

王宗炎序 导读 Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Linguistics and Language Acquisition 1.1 Knowledge of Language: Competence and Performance 1.2 Types of Linguistic Knowledge 1.3 The Projection Problem 1.4 Universal Grammar 1.5 Outline Notes Further Reading 2. Phonological Acquisition 2.1 Speech Sounds 2.2 Phonetics, Phonology and Language Variation 2.3 Categorical Perception in Adults and Infants 2.4 Early Speech Sounds 2.5 Feature Acquistion 2.6 Child Phonologies 2.7 Problems and Ideas 2.8 Summary and Conclusions Notes Further Reading Questions and Exercises 3. Morphological Development and Innovation 3.1 Types of Morphological Rules 3.2 A Morphological Model 3.3 Children's Knowledge of Level Ordering 3.4 Rule Use and Innovation 3.5 Problems and Unknowns 3.6 A Cross-Linguistic Perspective 3.7 Summary and Conclusions Questions and Exercises 4. The Acquisition of Syntax 4.1 Syntactic Structures and Universal Grammar 4.2 The Outer Course of Development 4.3 Early Syntax 4.4 Syntax in the Pre-School Years 4.5 Syntactic Development after Age six 4.6 Syntactic development: Some Popular Ideas Reconsidered 4.7 Summary and Conclusions Notes Further Reading Questions and Exercises 5. Further Aspects of Syntactic and Semantic Development 5.1 The Auxiliary System of English 5.2 The Acquisition of Auxiliary Systems: Syntax 5.3 The Acquisition of Negation 5.4 An Aside on Developmental Orders and Individual Development 5.5 The Acquisition of Modality, Tense and Aspect 5.6 The Development of Word Meanings 5.7 Quantification and Logic Form 5.8 Summary and Conclusion Notes Further Reading Questions and Exercises 6. Cognition, Environment and Language Learning 6.1 Innateness 6.2 Input and Errors 6.3 The Role of Universal Grammar in Language Development 6.4 Learnability and Acquisition Principles 6.5 Summary: Components of a Learning Model 6.6 Some Questions and Problems in Acquisition Theory 6.7 The Limits of Linguistic Model: Lexical Learning 6.8 Motherese 6.9 Language Development and Cognitive Development 6.10 Summary and Conclusions Notes Further Reading Questions and Exercises 7. Performance Development 7.1 Estimating Competence 7.2 Adult Processing Mechanisms 7.3 Children’s Sentence Processing 7.4 Discourse Integration 7.5 Summary and Conclusions Notes Further Reading Questions and Exercises Bibliography Index 文库索引