Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Structure building model of child language


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The result was merge to Andrew Radford (linguist). –&#8239;Joe (talk) 17:22, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Structure building model of child language

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Article based on one person's theory, this is purely promotional content to either advance the theory or promote book sales. Serious COI issue here comparing the primary contributor to the references. And strangely, the only online reference is circular ("Introduction taken from Wikipedia entry...").  P 1 9 9  ✉ 15:58, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Baby miss  fortune 16:47, 11 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Merge content into Andrew Radford (linguist) and redirect there. Yes, in its current state this article is problematic. But I'm amazed to read that "this is purely promotional content" -- what ever happened to "AGF"? Radford's book was standard in its day, and his general approach was and still is influential. How "structure building" differs from, or is part of, or subsumes, either "weak continuity" or "minimal trees" is something I don't remember well offhand, and I don't have immediate access to my shelf with three or more books that might well offer material that would remind me. Even if this were sorted out, the material wouldn't slot into First language -- which is where first language acquisition redirects (cf its still redlinked synonym child language acquisition) -- whose current coverage of nativist approaches concentrates on the premisses and not at anything more concrete. In the medium/long-term future there should probably be a standalone article on the structure-building model (not necessarily with this title) or similar, an article within which Radford's name would certainly be among the half-dozen most conspicuous; in the short term, it would be good if somebody with more spare time than I'm likely to have would bone up on such books as Barbara C Lust's Child Language: Acquisition and Growth and Maria Teresa Guasti's Language Acquisition: The Growth of Grammar and informedly augment the First language article. -- Hoary (talk) 23:28, 11 January 2018 (UTC) trivially reworded Hoary (talk) 00:36, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge to Radford's BLP. As Hoary notes, Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax was a pretty influential, but I don't think it's sufficient to support an article on the "model" per se. Cnilep (talk) 00:27, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
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