Cognitive Development and Acquisition of Language

abstract acquired adjectives adult alternations appear asked baby basic basis brother central child child’s chips Chomsky Clark cognitive complements complexity hypothesis concepts constructions contrast criterial Dani deep structure defined dimension direct object early English English phonology errors evidence example fact Finnish focal colors front front vowel function grammar grammatical relations input instances interpretation knowledge language acquisition learning lexical items linguistic markedness McNeill meaning memory morpheme natural prototype negative noun occur overextensions P-space pairs patterns perceptual peripheral phonetic phonological phonotactic Piaget plane point of reference position predictable prepositions present produced properties question relatively semantic features sentences shift rule spatial terms speaker specific speech stage stimuli strategy surface structure syntactic Table task theory tion transformational grammar transformations underlying underlying representation unmarked utterances verb versus vertical vowel shift words