Born to Parse: How Children Select Their Languages

by David Lightfoot

An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, yielding a view of language variation not based on parameters defined at UG.

In this book, David Lightfoot argues that just as some birds are born to chirp, humans are born to parse--predisposed to assign linguistic structures to their ambient external language. This approach to language acquisition makes two contributions to the development of Minimalist thinking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262044099
• ISBN13: 9780262044097
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"