Functional Categories in Language Acquisition Self Organization of a Dynamical System 1st Edition by Annette Hohenberger ISBN 3484304561 9783484304567

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ISBN 10: 3484304561

ISBN 13: 9783484304567 

Author: Annette Hohenberger 

This study investigates the acquisition of Functional Categories (e.g., INFL (AGR, TNS), DET, COMP) from the perspective of self-organization in generative grammar. Language is conceived of as a dynamical system which evolves in time and bifurcates when critical thresholds are reached. The emergence of syntax as evidenced by the acquisition of Functional Categories is the major bifurcation in child language acquisition.

Target values of syntactic parameters are attractors which children approach on individual trajectories. A proposed tripartite scenario of change – from a simple stable state A, via symmetry-breaking in a liminal phase B characterized by variation, to a new complex stable state C – accounts for the dynamics in early grammatical development.

Traditional generative issues, such as the acquisition of case-marking, finiteness, V2, and wh-questions, are discussed as well as new issues, such as functional neologisms, and sentential blends. Dynamical notions like precursor, oscillation, symmetry-breaking, and trigger are important explanatory tools. The growing child phrase marker is a fractal mental object which represents syntactic information by way of self-similar extended projections.

The book addresses researchers in language acquisition from various theoretical camps: generative, functional, connectionist, by giving new answers to old questions in the light of a novel challenging theory: self-organization.

Table of contents:

Part A: Self-Organization and Language Acquisition

1. Introduction
2. Language Acquisition Research in Generative Grammar: The Classical Models
3. Language Acquisition Research in Generative Grammar: New Models
4. Liminalia

Part B: Theme and Variation — Self-Organization in Language Acquisition: Models, Data and Analyses
5. Models of Layers and Levels of Syntactic Structures
6. Case Morphology
7. Finiteness, Non-Finiteness, Verb Placement, and Negation
8. The Acquisition of German Wh-Questions: Aspects of Variation in the C-System
9. The Position of Adjuncts
10. Syntactic Surface Blends
11. Functional Neologisms, Proto-Functional Categories, or, Living Dinosaurs
12. Precursors: Composition

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

Part D: Outlook
17. Beyond Economy: Ecology

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