Sabine Stoll

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sabine Stoll is involved.

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The Acquisition of Ergativity

Edited by Edith L. Bavin and Sabine Stoll

Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity in a large variety of typologically distinct languages. The chapters cover languages from different families and from… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 9] 2013. v, 341 pp.

Articles (4) | Order by:

Stoll, Sabine 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

Stoll, Sabine and Balthasar Bickel 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

Stoll, Sabine and Balthasar Bickel 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

Stoll, Sabine and Edith L. Bavin 2013 The acquisition of ergativity The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. and Sabine Stoll (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article