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The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition
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This collection of articles and associated discussion papers focuses on a problem that has attracted increasing attention from linguists and psychologists throughout the world during the past several years. Reduced to essentials, the problem is that of discovering the character of the mental capacities that make it possible for human beings to attain knowledge of their language on the basis of fragmentary and haphazard early linguistic experience. A fundamental assumption running through all of these contributions is that people possess strong innate predispositions that are critical for success in this task.
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Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection
Dowty, D. R. (1991) · Language · doi:10.1353/lan.1991.0021 · Cited by 4,480
Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
Jackendoff, R. (2002) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198270126.001.0001 · Cited by 3,244
The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings
Gleitman, L. (1990) · Language Acquisition · doi:10.1207/s15327817la0101_2 · Cited by 1,783
Natural language and natural selection
Pinker, S., & Bloom, P. (1990) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x00081061 · Cited by 1,330
Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar
White, L. (2003) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511815065 · Cited by 1,303
Metadata
- Authors
- Culicover, P. W., Baker, C. L., & McCarthy, J. J.
- Venue
- Language
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1984-03
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 115
- ISSN
- 0097-8507 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1974881914
- Cited by
- 762
- References
- 0
- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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