Overview
This book describes a study on the question of what sort of innate knowledge it is that enables children to acquire a first language. The author, using a computational approach, builds a model, named BUD (Bring Up a Daughter), on the basis of the data linguists and psychologists have collected.BUD is based on the empirists, view of first language acquisition (as opposed to that of the nativists'), that children make a number of rules in acquiring a first language and that over generalizations can be found in the acquisition of every aspect of a language. Thus, BUD has no built-in procedure by which it computes the structures of a language. A detailed description of the BUD model and its workings answers the question on which the study is based.
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- ISBN-13: 9789810201395
- ISBN-10: 9810201397
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
- Publish Date: January 1990
- Dimensions: 8.56 x 6.38 x 0.66 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.89 pounds
- Page Count: 206
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