The Acquisition of Ergativity
Edited by Edith L. Bavin and Sabine Stoll
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 9] 2013. v, 341 pp.
Sabine Stoll
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sabine Stoll plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn, Rowland, Caroline F., Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey (eds.), pp. 247–262 | Chapter
Humans have an innate capacity to learn language. This is an undisputed fact. However, what this capacity actually consists of has yet to be worked out in full detail. The main reason for this is that language is an abstract capacity which manifests in thousands of languages that vary widely in… read more
2013 Capturing diversity in language acquisition research Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake (eds.), pp. 195–216 | Article
In order to understand how children cope with the enormous variation in structures worldwide, developmental paths need to be studied in a sufficiently varied sample of languages. Because each study requires very large and expensive longitudinal corpora (about one million words, five to seven years… read more
2013 The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. and Sabine Stoll (eds.), pp. 183–208 | Article
The acquisition of ergative marking in Chintang (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal) seems challenging: the marker covers several functions but is rare in discourse because of NP ellipsis and syntactic constraints. Based on a longitudinal corpus of four children, we find that children master the ergative only… read more
2013 The acquisition of ergativity The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. and Sabine Stoll (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article