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Functional Categories in Language Acquisition
Self-Organization of a Dynamical System
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Functional Categories in Language Acquisition
Self-Organization of a Dynamical System
About this book
This study investigates the acquisition of Functional Categories from the perspective of self-organization. Syntax emerges through a major bifurcation of the dynamical language system. Dynamical notions such as precursor, oscillation, symmetry-breaking, and trigger are explanatory tools for the dynamics of early child language as evidenced in the acquisition of compounding, case-marking, finiteness, V2, wh-questions, etc. The book addresses researchers from various theoretical camps: generative, functional, connectionist, by giving new answers to old questions in the light of a novel challenging theory: self-organization.
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Table of contents
- Part A: Self-Organization and Language Acquisition
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Definitions of Self-Organization
- 1.2 Self-Organization of Language
- 1.3 Methodology and Method
- 1.4 A Theory of the Data
- 2 Language Acquisition Research in Generative Grammar: The Classical Models
- 2.1 The Instantaneous Model of Language Acquisition
- 2.2 The Continuity Hypothesis
- 2.3 Maturation
- 3 Language Acquisition Research in Generative Grammar: New Models
- 3.1 Lexical vs. Functional Categories: The Structure-Building Hypothesis
- 3.2 The Building-Block Model
- 4 Liminalia
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Time in Language Acquisition
- 4.3 Three Factors of Language Acquisition
- 4.4 Variations
- 4.5 Continuity vs. Discontinuity
- 4.6 Adult-centered vs. Child-centered Perspective
- 4.7 Hysteresis
- 4.8 Liminal Conclusions
- Part B: Theme and Variation Self-Organization in Language Acquisition: Models, Data and Analyses
- 5 Models of Layers and Levels of Syntactic Structures
- 5.1 Lebeaux’ Model of Levels of Representation: Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar
- 5.2 Grimshaw’s Extended Projection
- 5.3 Outlook: Variation and Selection Revisited
- 6 Case Morphology
- 6.1 Systemic Variation in the Acquisition of German Genitive Morphology
- 7 Finiteness, Non-Finiteness, Verb Placement, and Negation
- 7.1 Variation in the I-System
- 8 The Acquisition of German Wh-Questions: Aspects of Variation in the C-System
- 8.1 Valle
- 8.2 Tilman
- 9 The Position of Adjuncts
- 10 Syntactic Surface Blends
- 11 Functional Neologisms, Proto-Functional Categories, or, Living Dinosaurs
- 12 Precursors: Composition
- 12.1 Precursors
- 12.2 Compounding
- Part C: Dynamical Principles and Notions in Language Acquisition
- 13 Oscillations
- 14 Bootstrapping
- 15 Symmetry-Breakers and Predators vs. Matter and Prey: The Relation between Functional and Lexical Categories
- 16 The Trigger
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 The Trigger in Generative Models of Language Acquisition
- 16.3 A Dynamical Trigger Conception
- 16.4 After Triggering
- 16.5 Summary: A Redefinition of the Trigger
- Part D: Outlook
- 17 Beyond Economy: Ecology
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography