| Description: | Approaches to Bootstrapping: v. 1 (Language Acquisition & Language Disorders) Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing | ISBN: 9027224919 | edition 2001 | PDF | 318 pages | 1,86 mb There is growing consensus that by the age of three children have acquired the basic phonological, morpho-syntactic, and semantic regularities of the target language irrespective of the language or languages to be learned, and the language modality in which learning takes place, i.e., spoken or signed language. Evidence is also accumulating that the schedule for the major milestones of language development in the productive as well as in the eceptive mode is largely identical from language to language (for a detailed overview see Jusczyk 1997). How is this early learning or bootstrapping into the native language possible? The notion of bootstrapping implies that the child (on the basis of already existing knowledge and information processing capacities) can make use of specific types of information in the linguistic and non-linguistic input in order to determine the language particular regularities which constitute the grammar and the lexicon of her native language. Depending on the type of information which the child makes use of, we can distinguish prosodic, lexico-semantic, conceptual, morpho-syntactic, and pragmatic bootstrapping. My Links uploading.com filefactory.com To thank me use my links, please! My AH blog! !!! No mirrors please !!! |