How to Set Parameters: Arguments From Language Change

by David Lightfoot

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Over the past decade, generative grammarians have viewed language acquisition as a process of fixing option points or parameters defined in Universal Grammar. Here David Lightfoot addresses the crucial question of what it takes to set a parameter - of what kind of experience is needed to trigger the emergence of a natural kind of grammar. Lightfoot asserts that parameter setting is not sensitive to embedded material, and that it is triggered only...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0262620901

ISBN13:9780262620901

Release Date:October 1993

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:230 Pages

Weight:0.83 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Language Arts Psychology

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