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Learnability and cognition : the acquisition of argument structure / Steven Pinker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinker, Steven, 1954- author.
- Series:
- MIT Press series in learning, development, and conceptual change
- Learning, development, and conceptual change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child psychology.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Language acquisition.
- Learning ability.
- Semantics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- MIT Press CogNet.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1989]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In tackling a learning paradox that has challenged scholars for more than a decade - how children acquire argument structure - Steven Pinker synthesizes a vast literature in the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics and outlines explicit theories of the mental representation, the learning, and the development of verb meaning and verb syntax.
- Notes:
- "A bradford book."
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-391).
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pinker, Steven, 1954- Learnability and cognition.
- ISBN:
- 9780262281614
- 0262281619
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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