Nature, Nurture And Universal Grammar.
In just a few years, children achieve a stable state of linguistic competence, making them effectively adults with respect to: understanding novel sentences, discerning relations of paraphrase and entailment, acceptability judgments, etc. One familiar account of the language acquisition process trea...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 139 - 187 |
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