Knowledge and learning in natural language.

Yang, Charles D.:

ISBN 10: 0199254141 / ISBN 13: 9780199254149

Published by Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, 2007

About this Item

XII, 173 S. Gebrauchtes Buch aus ehem. Privatbesitz. GUTER Zustand, wenige Gebrauchsspuren. Used book, few traces of use. C07791 9780199254149 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knowledge and learning in natural language.
• Publisher: Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199254141
• ISBN 13: 9780199254149
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Repr.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 550 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Charles Yang has been teaching computational linguistics and language acquisition at Yale since receiving his Ph.D. in computer science at MIT.