By combining theoretical analysis and empirical investigation, this monograph investigates the status of interfaces in Minimalist linguistic theory, second language acquisition and native language attrition. Two major questions are currently under debate: (1) what exactly makes a linguistic phenomenon an ‘interface phenomenon’, and (2) what is the specific role that the interfaces play in explaining language loss and persistent problems in second language acquisition? Answers to these questions are provided by a theoretical examination of the role that economy and computational efficiency play in recent Minimalist models of the language faculty, as well as by evidence obtained in two empirical studies examining the acquisition and attrition of two interface phenomena: Spanish subject realization and word order variation. The result is a new definition of ‘interface phenomena’ which deemphasizes syntactic complexity and focuses on the effect of interface interpretive conditions on syntactic structure. This work also shows that representational deficits cannot be ruled out in the acquisition and attrition of interface structures.
Formation of Semiconductor Interfaces During Molecular Beam Epitaxy K. Ploog Max-Planck-Institut für ... of the reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and (b) the investigation of structural interface disorder effects in ...
2.1.1 QUERY INTERFACE METADATA Mature data models (e.g., relational model) have well-defined formalisms (e.g., normal forms) to systematically judge when a database schema is or is not well-designed. Analogously, we need to lay down a ...
Building a design framework from these studies and the growing body of literature examining public technologies, this book provides a new perspective for understanding human-computer interaction.
Investigates the status of interfaces in Minimalist linguistic theory, second language acquisition and native language attrition, by combining theoretical analysis and imperical investigation.
It begins by discussing why natural language understanding is a valuable component of mobile applications. ... Extensible Multimodal Annotation (EMMA) and the Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces (MMI) specification reduce the amount ...
The engineering of interfaces should be based on through understanding of their local properties and better understanding of the relationship between the interface properties and conditions of processing such as gas phase composition, ...
If device-quality interfaces between GaP and Si could be achieved, this would be a major advance towards bridging the ... However, a physical understanding of these systems is beginning to emerge that explains why many of the earlier ...
Significant progress has been made in applying these approaches, thus making this book a timely piece on recent research findings on the particle-matrix interface at different length scales.
Some means to control the growth of the interface have included: exhaustion of reacting species from a very low concentration ... and the nature of the bond were ignored, but these constitute important areas in understanding interfaces.
The theoretical proposals brought forward in this book as well as the results from the reported experimental studies present genuine contributions to the biolinguistic program.