Functional Categories In Language Acquisition —— Self-Organization of a Dynamical System

----- 语言习得中的功能范畴

ISBN: 9783484304567 出版年：2011 页码：328 Hohenberger, Annette Max Niemeyer Verlag

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 dynamics of early child language as evidenced in the acquisition of compounding, case-marking, finiteness, V2, wh-questions, etc. The book addresses researchers from various theoretical camps: generative, functional, connectionist, by giving new answers to old questions in the light of a novel challenging theory: self-organization.