TY  - GEN
T1  - Spontaneous spoken language : syntax and discourse
A1  - Miller, J. E. (James Edward), 1942-
A2  - Weinert, Regina
LA  - English
PP  - Oxford England : New York
PB  - Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press
YR  - 1998
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm53957608
AB  - Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from English, German, and Russian, they develop a systematic analysis of spoken English and highlight properties that hold across languages. The authors argue that the differences in syntax and the construction of discourse between spontaneous speech and written language bear on various areas of linguistic theory, apart from having obvious implications for syntactic analysis. In particular, they bear on typology, Chomskyan theories of first language acquisition, and the perennial problem of language in education. In current typological practice written and spontaneous spoken texts are often compared; the authors show convincingly that typological research should compare like with like. The consequences for Chomskyan, and indeed all, theories of first language acquisition flow from the central fact that children acquire spoken language but learn written language.
OP  - 457
CN  - P408 .M55 1998eb
SN  - 0585483981
SN  - 9780585483986
SN  - 1280375078
SN  - 9781280375071
SN  - 9786610375073
SN  - 6610375070
SN  - 0198236565
KW  - Colloquial language.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general : Syntax.
KW  - Discourse analysis.
KW  - Typology (Linguistics)
KW  - Language acquisition.
KW  - Language Development
KW  - Philology & Linguistics.
KW  - Languages & Literatures.
KW  - Langue familière.
KW  - Syntaxe.
KW  - Analyse du discours.
KW  - Typologie (Linguistique)
KW  - Langage : Acquisition.
KW  - pragmatics.
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES : Grammar & Punctuation.
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES : Linguistics : Syntax.
KW  - Colloquial language
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general : Syntax
KW  - Language acquisition
KW  - Taalgebruik.
KW  - Spreektaal.
KW  - Schrijftaal.
KW  - Vergelijkende linguïstiek.
KW  - Zinsconstructies.
KW  - Taalverwerving.
KW  - Taaltypologie.
KW  - Taalonderwijs.
ER  -