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- See Noam Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1965).
- Lois M. Bloom, “Language Development: Form and Function in Emerging Grammars” (Ph.D. diss., Columbia Univ., 1968).
- Melissa Bowerman, “Structural Relationships in Children's Utterances: Syntactic or Semantic?” (pp. 4–5 of paper presented at the Summer Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America held in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1971).
- See David McNeill, The Acquisition of Language: The Study of Developmental Psycholinguistics (New York: Harper and Row, 1970).
- See Martin D. S. Braine, “The Acquisition of Language in Infant and Child,” in The Learning of Language, ed. C. Reed (New York: Scribner's, 1971).
- Melissa Bowerman, Early Syntactic Development (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1973), p. 69.
- Following Charles J. Fillmore, “The Case for Case,” in Universals in Linguistic Theory, ed. Emmon Bach and Robert T. Harms (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968).
- See Bowerman, Early Syntactic Development, p. 252; also David McNeill, “Developmental Psycholinguistics,” in The Genesis of Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach, ed. Frank Smith and George A. Miller (Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1966), p. 51.
- See Bowerman (n. 9 above).
- Keith T. Kernan, “The Acquisition of Language by Samoan Children” (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1969).
- A. N. Gvozdev, Voprosy Izuchertiya Detskoy Rechi (Moscow: Akad. Pedag. Nauk RSFSR, 1961), p. 173.
- See Bowerman (n. 9 above).
- See Chomsky (n. 4 above), p. 33.
- Shannon D. Moeser and Albert S. Bregman, “The Role of Reference in the Acquisition of a Miniature Artificial Language,” Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, XI (1972), 759–769; also, by the same authors, “Imagery and Language Acquisition,” Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, XII (1973), 91–98.
- See the references from Halliday, Osgood, and von Raffler-Engel in n. 3 above; Bärbel Inhelder and Jean Piaget, The Growth of Logical Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence (New York: Basic Books, 1958); and Dan I. Slobin, “Children and Language: They Learn the Same Way All Around the World,” Psychology Today, VI (1972), 71–74 and 82.
- Osgood (n. 3 above), p. 521.
- See Bloom (nn. 1 and 5 above), and also the references from Halliday, Schlesinger, and von Raffler-Engel in n. 3 above.
- Jerrold J. Katz and Jerry A. Fodor, “The Structure of a Semantic Theory,” Language, XXXIX (1963), p. 179.
- Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures (The Hague: Mouton, 1957), p. 17.
- See Bowerman (n. 9 above) and Kernan (n. 13 above); also Ben G. Blount, “Acquisition of Language by Luo Children” (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1969).
- Dan I. Slobin, “Grammatical Transformations and Sentence Comprehension in Childhood and Adulthood,” Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, V (1966), 219–227.
- I. M. Schlesinger, “The Influence of Sentence Structure on the Reading Process,” U.S. Office of Naval Research Technical Report, Rept. 24, 1966.
- See Elizabeth A. Turner and Ragnar Rommetveit, “Experimental Manipulation of Active and Passive Voice in Children,” Language and Speech, X (1967), 169–180.
- See, for example, McNeill (n. 11 above), p. 50.
- See, for example, Bloom (n. 1 above); the references from Halliday, Osgood, and Schlesinger in n. 3 above; and von Raffler-Engel, “Language Acquisition” (n. 3 above).
- See Kernan (n. 13 above) and Bowerman (n. 9 above).
- Bowerman, Early Syntactic Development, p. 173.
- Ibid., p. 90.
- Thomas G. Bever, “The Cognitive Basis for Linguistic Structures,” in Cognition and the Development of Language, ed. John R. Hayes (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1970), p. 351.
- Ibid.
- Osgood (n. 3 above), p. 527.
- Ibid., p. 522.
- See Schlesinger (n. 3 above).
- Keith T. Kernan, “Semantic Relations and the Child's Acquisition of Language,” Anthropological Linguistics, XII (1970), 171–187, and also n. 13 above.
- Bowerman, Early Syntactic Development, p. 173.
- Dan I. Slobin, “Developmental Psycholinguistics,” in A Survey of Linguistic Science, ed. William Orr Dingwall (College Park: Univ. of Maryland Linguistics Dept., 1971), p. 309.
- Ibid., p. 306.
- Osgood, “Where Do Sentences Come From?,” p. 523.
- Suitbert Ertel, prepublication draft of Words, Sentences, and the Ego (Institute of Psychology at the Univ. of Gottingen, West Germany, 1971), p. 52.
- Charles E. Osgood 1973: personal communication.
- See esp. Charles E. Osgood, William H. May, and Murray S. Miron, Universals in Affective Meaning (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1975).
- Herbert H. Clark and J. S. Begun, “The Semantics of Sentence Subjects,” Language and Speech, XLI, Pt. 1 (1971), 34–46.
- Cited in Charles E. Osgood, “Interpersonal Verbs and Interpersonal Behavior,” in Studies in Language and Thought, ed. J. L. Cowan (Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1970).
- Herbert H. Clark, “Some Structural Properties of Simple Active and Passive Sentences,” Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, IV (1965), 365–370.
- George J. Suci and Jane H. Hamacher, “Psychological Dimensions of Case in Sentence Processing: Action Role and Animateness,” International Journal of Psycholinguistics, I (1972), 34–48.
- Suci and Hamacher, “Psychological Dimensions,” p. 44.
- See n. 10 above.
- See n. 48 above.
- See Bowerman (n. 9 above).
- See Clark (n. 47 above), also Clark and Begun (n. 45 above).
- Michael G. Johnson, “Syntactic Position and Rated Meaning,” Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, VI (1967), 240–266.
- Hanna Jordan, Vordiplom für Psychologen dissertation, quoted in Ertel (see n. 42 above), pp. 39–44.
- Bowerman, “Early Syntactic Development,” pp. 188–189.
- Ibid., pp. 191–192.
- Jean Piaget, The Child's Conception of the World (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929).
- R. L. Gregory, Eye and Brain (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966), pp. 91–92.
- Ibid., p. 111.
- Chomsky, Aspects, p. 59.
- Ibid.
- See Bowerman (n. 9 above).
- Here I assume that humans use language because they want to communicate rather than generate grammatical strings because they have generative grammars.
- See Katz and Fodor (n. 21 above), p. 179.
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