Formal principles of language acquisition

By Peter W. Culicover, Kenneth Wexler, Kenneth; Culicover Peter W. Wexler

Book Overview

Wexler and Culicover ... address themselves not to the myriad data on the child's speech at various stages, but to a single, crucial datum: all children succeed at acquiring a grammar for the language of their community, based on the information available in the sentences addressed to them....

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262230992
• ISBN13: 9780262230995
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 647 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.