David W. Lightfoot

Born to Parse (eBook, ePUB)

How Children Select Their Languages

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, which feeds 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 structures to their ambient external language. This approach to language acquisition makes two contributions to the development of Minimalist thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262358873
• Artikelnr.: 58671658

Autorenporträt

David W. Lightfoot is Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program, and Codirector of the Interdisciplinary PhD Concentration in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Three Visions
2 Three New Parses
3 Parsing and Variable Properties
4 Parsing at Interfaces
5 Population Biology: The Spread of New Variable Properties
6 Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Selection
Notes
References
Index