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)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2020
Series:The MIT Press
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