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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: 9780199254156
- ISBN-10: 019925415X
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publish Date: March 2003
- Dimensions: 9.38 x 6.18 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 188
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