Functional Categories in Language Acquisition : Self-Organization of a Dynamical System.

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 dyna...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Hohenberger, Annette
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin : De Gruyter, 2002.
Series:	Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 456.
Subjects:	Language acquisition. Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.