Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language (Oxford Linguistics)
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Book details
- Author
- Charles D. Yang
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Foreign Language Study & Reference
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780199254149
- ISBN-10
- 0199254141
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language (Oxford Linguistics)
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ISBN: 0199254141
Author: Yang, Charles D.
Condition: New
It is a simple observation that children make mistakes when they learn a language. Yet, to the trained eye, these mistakes are far from random; in fact, they closely resemble perfectly grammatical utterances by adults--who speak other languages. This type of error analysis suggests a novel view of language learning: children are born with a fixed set of hypotheses about language--Chomsky's Universal Grammar--and these hypotheses compete to match the child's ambient language in a Darwinian fashion. The book presents evidence for this perspective from the study of children's words and grammar, and how language changes over time.
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