Born to Parse How Children Select Their Languages
An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, yielding a view of language variation not based on parameters defined at UG. In this book, David Lightfoot argues that just as some birds are born to chirp, humans are born to parse-predisposed to assign linguistic st...
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Main Author: | Lightfoot, David W. (auth) |
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Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge
The MIT Press
2020
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Series: | The MIT Press
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