Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Lightfoot, David, 1945- author.

Title Born to parse : how children select their languages / David W. Lightfoot.

Publication Info. Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2020.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Summary "This book represents a new approach to language acquisition and to variable properties in language. By taking a novel approach in allowing for an account of the acquisition of variable properties of language and a biologically plausible treatment of language variation, Lightfoot argues against the use of binary parameters, for the centrality of parsing in language acquisition, and for the "openness" of Universal Grammar"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note MIT Press Direct MIT Press Direct Open Access
Subject Language awareness in children.
Language awareness in children.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Parsing.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Parsing.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Second language acquisition.
Indexed Term LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/Language Acquisition
ISBN 0262358867 (electronic book)
9780262358866 (electronic book)
9780262044097
0262044099