The logical problem of language acquisition

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The logical problem of language acquisition

edited by C.L. Baker and John J. McCarthy

（MIT Press series on cognitive theory and mental representation）

MIT Press, c1981

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Bibliography: p. [330]-344

Includes index

Contents of Works

  • Learnability, restrictiveness, and the evaluation metric / Howard Lasnik
  • Some issues in the theory of learnability / Kenneth Wexler
  • A readjustment in the learnability assumptions / Edwin Williams
  • The history of noun phrase movement / David Lightfoot
  • On the deductive model and the acquisition of productive morphology / Thomas Roeper
  • Form, function, and the language acquisition device / Jane Grimshaw
  • On the learnability of abstract phonology / Bezalel Elan Dresher
  • The role of the evaluation metric in the acquisition of phonology / John J. McCarthy
  • Strict bounding / Mark R. Baltin
  • Learnability and the English auxiliary system / C.L. Baker

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This collection of articles and associated discussion papers focuses on a problem that has attracted increasing attention from linguists and psychologists throughout the world during the past several years. Reduced to essentials, the problem is that of discovering the character of the mental capacities that make it possible for human beings to attain knowledge of their language on the basis of fragmentary and haphazard early linguistic experience. A fundamental assumption running through all of these contributions is that people possess strong innate predispositions that are critical for success in this task.

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