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 t
Learnability and cognition : the acquisition of argument structure
โ Scribed by Pinker, Steven
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 488
- Series
- Learning development and conceptual change
- Edition
- New ed.
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Subjects
Grammatik;Argumentstruktur;Spracherwerb;Electronic books / local
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