TY - BOOK
T1 - Investigations in universal grammar
T2 - a guide to experiments on the acquisition of syntax and semantics
AU - Crain, Stephen
AU - Thornton, Rosalind
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two experimental techniques for assessing children's linguistic competence; the Elicited Production task, a production task, and the Truth Value Judgment task, a comprehension task. Their methodologies are designed to overcome the numerous obstacles to empirical investigation of children's language competence. They produce research results that are more reproducible and less likely to be dismissed as an artifact of improper experimental procedure.
AB - This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two experimental techniques for assessing children's linguistic competence; the Elicited Production task, a production task, and the Truth Value Judgment task, a comprehension task. Their methodologies are designed to overcome the numerous obstacles to empirical investigation of children's language competence. They produce research results that are more reproducible and less likely to be dismissed as an artifact of improper experimental procedure.
KW - Language acquisition -- Research -- Methodology
KW - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
KW - Semantics
KW - Competence and performance (Linguistics)
M3 - Book
SN - 0262032503
T3 - Language, speech, and communication
BT - Investigations in universal grammar
PB - MIT Press
CY - Cambridge, Mass.
ER -