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Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language (Oxford Linguistics)

  • Authors: ENGEL - Charles D. Yang - William E.
  • ISBN 10: 0199254141
  • ISBN 13: 9780199254149
  • Release: March 27, 2003
  • Format: Hardcover (192 pages)
  • List Price: $165.00
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    List Price: $165.00

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    Book Description:
    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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