LINGUIST List 4.431

Fri 04 Jun 1993

Books: Acquisition, Cognitive

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    Meisel, Jurgen M.; Un. of Hamburg; The Acquisition of Verb Placement - Functional Categories and V2 Phenomena in Language Acquisition; 464 pp.;HB Set 0-7923-1906-0; Kluwer Academic, Email vanderLindenwkap.nl The twelve original contributions in this volume all focus on the question of whether developing grammars contain, at each stage of language acquisition, the full range of functional categories such as INFL, AGR, or COMP. The studies presented here investigate monolingual and bilingual first language and, in one case, adult second language acquisition.

    Goodluck, Helen; Un of Ottawa; Rochemont, Michael; Un of BC; Island Constraints - Theory, Acquisition and Processing; 480 pp.; HB 0-7923-1689-4; Kluwer Academic Publishers, Email vanderLindenwkap.nl This book contains articles on the theory, acquisition and processing of island constraints. The book is unique in taking an interdisciplinary approach to a syntactic phenomenon that has been at the center of linguistic debates since the 1960's.