The Acquisition of Word Order: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy

The Acquisition of Word Order......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1. Introduction......Page 14
2. Theoretical background......Page 16
3. The acquisition data......Page 18
4. Outline of the book......Page 22
1. Introduction......Page 26
2. Parameter setting and word order variation......Page 27
3.1 Variation across clause types......Page 29
3.2 Variation within clause types......Page 33
3.3 Variation based on information structure......Page 37
4. Norwegian verbal morphology......Page 40
5. Summary......Page 43
1. Introduction......Page 46
2. Some previous analyses of V2 word order......Page 47
3.1 Different clause types and a split ForceP......Page 50
3.2 Further microvariation and the status of certain lexical elements......Page 55
3.3 Word order and information structure......Page 58
4.1 Introduction......Page 63
4.2 V2 in different clause types......Page 65
4.3 Further micro-cues for V2/non-V2......Page 69
5. Summary......Page 72
1. Introduction......Page 76
2. The role of the input......Page 77
3. Input frequencies of different clause types......Page 79
4.1 Word order dependent on further micro-cues......Page 83
4.2 Word order based on information structure......Page 86
5. Summary......Page 88
1. Introduction......Page 90
2.1 Introduction: Acquisition vs. rote learning......Page 91
2.2 Economy......Page 92
2.3 Morphology and syntax: V2 and the acquisition of tense and agreement......Page 93
2.4 Optional infinitives and truncation......Page 95
2.5 Grammar competition and V1 structures......Page 96
3.1 Early examples of V2 word order......Page 97
3.2 Non-subject-initial declaratives and finiteness......Page 100
3.3 Subjectless examples......Page 102
3.4 The production of V1 structures......Page 103
4.1 Non-subject-initial declaratives with kanskje ‘maybe’......Page 107
4.2.1 Non-target word order and finiteness......Page 108
4.2.2 Non-target-consistent word order and information structure......Page 111
5. Summary and conclusion......Page 117
1. Introduction......Page 120
2.1 Finiteness and the development of modals......Page 122
2.2 Optional infinitives and subjectless clauses......Page 123
2.3 Verb movement as verb-by-verb learning process......Page 124
3.1 Verb movement and finiteness......Page 126
3.2 Position vs. finiteness – non-target-consistent examples......Page 129
3.3 Movement, finiteness and negation......Page 131
3.4 Lack of verb movement or missing auxiliaries......Page 133
3.5 Optional infinitives, subjectless clauses and the development of modals......Page 136
3.6 Verb movement and type of verb......Page 138
4. Word order in subject-initial declaratives with focus-sensitive adverbs......Page 143
5. Summary......Page 144
1. Introduction......Page 146
2.1 Inversion in child english......Page 147
2.2 Economy and the order of acquisition......Page 149
2.3 Verb movement and finiteness......Page 150
2.4 Word order and information structure......Page 151
2.5 Overgeneralization......Page 153
3.1 The production of V2 and non-V2 word order......Page 154
3.2 Word order and finiteness......Page 158
3.3 Word order and information structure......Page 160
3.4 Usage-based vs. rule-based learning......Page 164
3.5 Non-target-consistent forms......Page 166
4. Subject questions......Page 171
5. Questions with disyllabic wh-constituents......Page 174
6. Summary......Page 176
1. Introduction......Page 178
2.1 Types of Yes/no-questions: General development......Page 179
2.2 Type 1 Yes/no-questions......Page 182
2.3 Type 2 Yes/no-questions......Page 184
2.4 Type 3 Yes/no-questions......Page 186
2.5 Other non-target-consistent forms......Page 187
2.6 Verb movement and verb types......Page 189
2.6 Verb movement and subject types......Page 192
3. Summary and conclusion......Page 193
1. Introduction......Page 196
2. Previous research and predictions......Page 198
3. Subject-Verb word order: Exclamatives and embedded questions......Page 201
4. Neg/adv-verb word order: Embedded declaratives......Page 204
5. Summary and conclusion......Page 210
1. Introduction......Page 212
2. Summary of findings......Page 213
3. Micro-cues......Page 219
4.1 Verb movement in wh-questions......Page 223
4.2 Verb movement in non-subject-initial declaratives......Page 225
5.2 Incomplete structures and missing elements......Page 229
5.3 Economy of movement......Page 232
5.4 Verb movement in non-V2 contexts......Page 235
6. Summary......Page 236
References......Page 238
Appendix......Page 250
Index......Page 256
The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today......Page 260