CHILD LANGUAGE AND DEVELOPMENTAL DYSPHASIA Linguistic Studies of the Acquisition of German -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION -- 1. Theoretical approaches in language acquisition research -- 1.1 The functionalist approach -- 1.2 The theory of Operating Principles -- 1.2.1 A sketch of Slobin's model -- 1.2.2 On the analysis of transitivity markers -- 1.2.3 On the theoretical status of Operating Principles -- 1.3 Learnability theory -- 1.3.1 Learnability constraints -- 1.3.2 Grammatical theory and learnability -- 1.3.3 On the structure of the language acquisition device -- 2. Early child grammars -- 2.1 Some features of Stage I in German child language -- 2.2 A phrase structure grammar for phase II -- 2.3 Learnability considerations on syntactic categorisation -- 2.4 Parameter theory and the acquisition of word order -- 2.4.1 Pinker's analysis -- 2.4.2 An alternative solution within GB-theory -- 3. The grammar of a three year-old -- 3.1 Some features of phase IV in German child language -- 3.2 Syntactic structures in phase IV -- 3.3 Learning mechanisms for inflectional elements -- 3.3.1 On the construction of morphological paradigms -- 3.3.2 Verb inflection in German child language -- PART II: DEVELOPMENTAL DYSPHASIA -- 4. Grammar acquisition and dysphasia (with particular reference to the research situation in West Germany) -- 4.1 Linguistic features -- 4.2 Psycholinguistic aspects -- 4.3 Aims and basic hypotheses -- 4.4 On the design of the empirical investigation -- 4.4.1 Selecting the children -- 4.4.2 Analysing the linguistic data -- 4.4.3 Overview of the data investigated -- 5. Grammatical units -- 5.1 Nominal elements and the structure of the noun phrase -- 5.2 Adverbial elements and prepositional phrases -- 5.3 Verbal elements.

5.4 Conjunctions -- 6. Selected areas of the inflectional system -- 6.1 Case markings -- 6.1.1 On the form and function of case markings in German -- 6.1.2 Case markings in dysphasia -- 6.1.3 A comparison with the acquisition of case morphology in normal children -- 6.2 Verb inflection -- 6.2.1 On subject-verb agreement in dysphasia -- 6.2.2 Functional analyses of the inflection of verbs in dysphasia -- 7. Word order -- 7.1 Verb placement -- 7.1.1 Overview: V1,V2 and verb-final patterns -- 7.1.2 Verb placement and verb inflection -- 7.1.3 Verb placement and verbal elements -- 7.2 Argument order -- 7.3 The position of the negator -- 8. Learnability theory and the acquisition of grammar -- 8.1 Child language development -- 8.2 Developmental dysphasia -- 9. Appendix -- 9.1 Profile charts -- 9.2 Transcripts -- Transcript: andreas 1 -- Transcript: andreas 2 -- Transcript: anja 1 -- Transcript: anja 2 -- Transcript: jonas 1 -- Transcript: jonas 2 -- Transcript: julia 1 -- Transcript: julia 2 -- Transcript: klaus 1 -- Transcript: klaus 2 -- Transcript: patrick -- Transcript: petra 1 -- Transcript: petra 2 -- Transcript: petra 3 -- Transcript: Stefan -- Transcript: sven -- Transcript: wolfgang -- Bibliography -- Index.