TY - BOOK AU - Crain,Stephen AU - Thornton,Rosalind TI - Investigations in universal grammar: a guide to experiments on the acquisition of syntax and semantics T2 - Language, speech, and communication SN - 9780262531801 U1 - 401.93 21 PY - 2000/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Language acquisition KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Syntax KW - Semantics KW - Competence and performance (Linguistics) KW - Gramática comparada y general KW - Sintaxis KW - Semántica KW - Competencia y actuación (Lingüística) KW - Langage KW - Acquisition KW - Recherche KW - Syntaxe KW - Sémantique KW - Compétence et performance (Linguistique) KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Linguistics KW - Psycholinguistics KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Experimenteel onderzoek KW - gtt KW - Taalverwerving KW - Universele grammatica KW - Semantiek N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-338) and index; pt. I; The Modularity Matching Model; Ch. 1; Introduction; Ch. 2; Constraints and Universal Grammar; Ch. 3; The Poverty of the Stimulus; Ch. 4; Models of Language Development; Ch. 5; Continuity versus Input Matching; Ch. 6; The Competing Factors Model; Ch. 7; Competing Tasks: Reaction Time Studies; Ch. 8; Competing Tasks: The Act Out Task; Ch. 9; Competing Tasks: Imitation; Ch. 10; Judgment Tasks and Competing Factors; Ch. 11; Context and Competing Factors; Ch. 12; Language Processing; Ch. 13; Extralinguistic Knowledge; Ch. 14; When Principles and Preferences Collide; Ch. 15; Performance Errors; Ch. 16; Methodological Preliminaries; pt. II; The Elicited Production Task; Ch. 17; Elicited Production; Ch. 18; Eliciting Relative Clauses; Ch. 19; Asking Questions: The "Ask/Tell" Problem; Ch. 20; Structure Dependence; Ch. 21; Wanna Contraction; Ch. 22; Long Distance Questions and the Medial Wh; Ch. 23; Why Children Make Good Subjects; Ch. 24; Summary of Designs; pt. III; The Truth Value Judgment Task; Ch. 25; Truth Value Judgments; Ch. 26; Backward Anaphora; Ch. 27; Fundamentals of Design: Principle C; Ch. 28; What's Wrong with This Picture?; Ch. 29; Strong Crossover; Ch. 30; Strongest Crossover; Ch. 31; Principle B; Ch. 32; Following Up on Principle B; Ch. 33; Sets and Circumstances; Ch. 34; Discourse Binding; Ch. 35; Universal Quantification; Ch. 36; Donkey Sentences; Ch. 37; A Potential Drawback of the Task; Ch. 38; Resolving the Dilemma: Control Sentences; Ch. 39; Resolving the Dilemma: Varying the Context; Ch. 40; Conclusion ER -