Language Acquisition and Learnability

Language acquisition and learnability

✍ Bertolo S. (ed.) 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 CUP 🌐 English

Language Acquisition and Learnability is an accessible introduction to learnability theory and its interactions with linguistic theories. Working within the Principles and Parameters framework, the book surveys general concepts from formal learning theory and complexity theory, together with importa

📁 Language Acquisition and Learnability

✍ Stefano Bertolo (Editor) 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Language Acquisition and Learnability is an accessible introduction to learnability theory and its interactions with linguistic theories. Working within the Principles and Parameters framework, the book surveys general concepts from formal learning theory and complexity theory, together with importa

Learnability and the Lexicon: Theories a

📁 Learnability and the Lexicon: Theories and second language acquisition research

✍ Alan Juffs 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

This book provides a critical review of recent theories of semantics-syntax correspondences and makes new proposals for constraints on semantic structure relevant to syntax. Data from several languages are presented which suggest that semantic structure in root morphemes is subject to parametric var

Language Learnability and L2 Phonology:

📁 Language Learnability and L2 Phonology: The Acquisition of Metrical Parameters

✍ John Archibald (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 1993 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

<p>In this book Archibald describes two studies conducted within a parametric framework in the area of second language acquisition. The studies are designed to investigate the acquisition of English stress patterns (via both production and perception tasks) by adult speakers of Polish and Hungarian.

Language learnability and language devel

📁 Language learnability and language development

✍ Steven Pinker 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

At first glance, this appeared to be a more formidable effort than "The Language Instinct", which seemed aimed at a very wide (and perhaps more credulous) audience.<p>However, the argument seems fairly simple:<p>1. A grammar can be abstracted from speech (in this case, English speech) based on obser

Empiricism and Language Learnability

📁 Empiricism and Language Learnability

✍ Nick Chater, Alexander Clark, John A. Goldsmith, Amy Perfors 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability. The authors, from different backgrounds---linguistics, philosophy, computer science, psychology and cognitive science-explore the idea that language acquisition proceeds through general pur