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Knowledge and learning in natural language / Charles D. Yang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Charles D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language acquisition.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Language and languages--Variation.
- Language and languages.
- Linguistic change.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-165) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0199254141
- 019925415X
- OCLC:
- 50280149
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