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Explaining Language Universals
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Part 1 Introduction: explaining language universals, John A.Hawkins. Part 2 Innateness and Learnability: the innateness hypothesis, Teun Hoekstra and Jan G.Kooij language acquisitions - schemas replace universal grammar, Michael A.Arbib and Jane C.Hill the no negative evidence problem - how do children avoid constructing an overly general grammar?, Melissa Bowerman. Max-Planck Institut fur Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen). Part 3 Semantic and Pragmatic Explanations: on semantics and the binding theory, Edward L.Keenan concessive connecitves and concessive sentences - cross-linguistic regularities and pragmatic principles, Ekkehard Konig a discourse approach to the cross-linguistic category adjective, Sandra A.Thompson coreference and conjunction reduction in grammar and discourse, Bernard Comrie. Part 4 Cognitive, Perceptual and processing explanations: language, perception and the world, Michael Lee parameterizing the language processing system - left-vs. right-branching within and across languages, Lyn Frazier and Keith Rayner psycholinguistic factors in morphological asymmetry, John A.Hawkins, and Anne Cutler. Part 5 the diachronic dimension: integrating diachronic and processing principles in explaining the suffixing preference, Christopher J.Hall the diachronic dimension in explanation, Joan L.Bybee.
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- Authors
- Croft, W., & Hawkins, J. A.
- Venue
- Language
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1991-03
- Volume
- 67
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 146
- ISSN
- 0097-8507 (ISSN-L)
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- W2074604839
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- en
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