Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language (Oxford Linguistics)
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 2003
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- Title
- Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language (Oxford Linguistics)
- Author
- Yang, Charles D.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- new
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- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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- 019925415X
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- 9780199254156
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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Charles Yang has been teaching computational linguistics and language acquisition at Yale since receiving his Ph.D. in computer science at MIT.
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