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Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language

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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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  • ISBN-13: 9780199254149
  • ISBN-10: 0199254141
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • Publish Date: March 2003
  • Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.97 pounds
  • Page Count: 188

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