The Price of Linguistic Productivity: How Children Learn to Break the Rules of Language

by Charles Yang

An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.

All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a young child tease them apart within just a few years of language acquisition? In this book, drawing an economic analogy, Charles Yang argues that just as the price of goods is determined by the balance between supply and demand, the price of linguistic productivity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262035324
• ISBN13: 9780262035323
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher