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Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language

Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language

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Series: Oxford Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 019925415X
ISBN13: 9780199254156
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: Mar 27 2003
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
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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