Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure
(Part of the Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change Series)
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When children learn a language, they soon are able to make surprisingly subtle distinctions: "donate them a book" sounds odd, for example, even though "give them a book" is perfectly natural. How can this happen, given that children do not confine themselves to the sentence types they hear, and are usually not corrected when they speak ungrammatically? Steven Pinker resolves this paradox in a detailed theory of how children acquire argument structure...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0262660733
ISBN13:9780262660730
Release Date:January 1991
Publisher:Bradford Book
Length:432 Pages
Weight:1.54 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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