Early Syntactic Acquisition in German: Evidence for the Modal Hypothesis.

Ingram, David; Thompson, William

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ERIC Number: EJ527785

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Publication Date: 1996

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Early Syntactic Acquisition in German: Evidence for the Modal Hypothesis.

Ingram, David; Thompson, William

Language, v72 n1 p97-120 Mar 1996

Presents the Lexical/Semantic Hypothesis, which proposes that early learning is more lexically oriented, and that early word combinations can be explained by more semantically oriented accounts than the Full Competence Hypothesis. The article also replaces the Grammatical Infinitive Hypothesis with the Modal Hypothesis. (32 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, German, Hypothesis Testing, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Statistical Analysis, Syntax, Toddlers, Verbs

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada; Germany

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