Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
units out of which they are built (the substantive universals), the repertoire of rule types that govern them, and the overall a ...
in reducingthem to more general cognitive capacities, and to this degree Tomasello'scomplaintis justified.^42 This is an area wh ...
syntax”so well? This something, whatever it is, is what is meant by Universal Grammar. 4.6 The poverty of the stimulus; the Para ...
with altogether. (More detailed discussion of this point appears in Gleitman and Wanner 1982) and Shatz 1982.) To besure, Batesa ...
It is worth pointing out that the Paradox of Language Acquisitionfindsparallels in every cognitive domain. All normal children l ...
Inclaimingthatchildrenlearngrammar soeasilybydoingitintuitivelyrather thanconsciously, critics alsomissanother important point: ...
only the absurd interpretation that a single acorn grew into multiple trees. There would be no problem if (3c, d) were both good ...
that,universally, NPs are permittedinpositionswheretheycanbecasemarked.Inorder for thisproposaltobecarried throughconsistently, ...
must learn on the order offive words a day in order to achievethe estimated 8,000-word vocabulary of a six-year-old. Of course t ...
world—and thewordsused todescribeit—witha host ofbuilt-inbiases that constraintheir f-hypotheses about whata word can pertain to ...
the Paradox of Language Acquisition at every turn. We should be delighted if some aspects of this problem can be reduced to the ...
understanding and producing facial expressions, conducting exchanges of reciprocal altruis m(e.g. Darwin 1872; Tinbergen 1951/89 ...
but everything works essentially the same. We don't know how the genes code individual differences in human faces, much less the ...
subjectmatter; at leasttheformer is subjecttofocalbrain damage and childhoodimpairment.Experts at chess and (in my own case) pla ...
conclusion, and thus it begins to dissociate linguistics from biology. There are two reasons why Chomsky might be wary of an evo ...
many other differences between us and theapes, and in principleany of themmightbe the factor that makes language possible. The m ...
child is something that everyone does, like walking. By contrast, adults differ widely in their ability to learn a new language, ...
fluency is reserved for those exposed fro mbirth. Adult co mpetence declines withfirst exposure at six, more withfirst exposure ...
On the surface, the two systems are so distinct that one would think, left to their own devices, they would seek out quite diffe ...
These results and their interpretation are still controversial. However, again, the dispute need not be couched in the oversimpl ...
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