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Functional Categories in Language Acquisition: Self-Organization of a Dynamical System: 456 Reprint 2011 Edition
Author(s): Hohenberger (Author)
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2002
- Edition: Reprint 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 330 pages
- ISBN-10: 3484304561
- ISBN-13: 9783484304567
Book Description
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.
