Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

Nativist theories have argued that language involves syntactic principles which are
unlearnable from the input children receive. A paradigm case of these innate principles is …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

Purpose The purpose of this article is to present 3 approaches that emphasize the role that
input plays in the treatment of grammatical deficits in children with language impairments …

This paper describes the CoreGram project, a multilingual grammar engineering project that
develops HPSG grammars for several typologically diverse languages that share a common …

Focusing on children's production of the dative alternation in English, we examine whether
children's choices are influenced by the same factors that influence adults' choices, and …

The English auxiliary system exhibits many lexical exceptions and subregularities, and
considerable dialectal variation, all of which are frequently omitted from generative analyses …

Language in Children provides a concise and basic introduction for students studying child
language acquisition for the first time. Starting from the first sounds a child produces, this …

Intonational development has been an area of interest during the past four decades, from
the perspectives of both production and perception. But relatively few conclusions have …