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Learnability and Cognition

Paperback • 1991 • English

Learnability and Cognition

By Steven Pinker

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About the book

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.In tackling a learning paradox that has chall...Show more

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9780262660730

Publisher

Bradford Books

Published year

1991

Language

English

Original title

Learnability and Cognition

Format

Paperback

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