Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language (Oxford Linguistics) - Couverture souple

Yang, Charles D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 019925415X ISBN 13 : 9780199254156

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

Synopsis

It is a simple observation that children make mistakes when they learn a language. Yet, to the trained eye, these mistakes are far from random; in fact, they closely resemble perfectly grammatical utterances by adults--who speak other languages. This type of error analysis suggests a novel view of language learning: children are born with a fixed set of hypotheses about language--Chomsky's Universal Grammar--and these hypotheses compete to match the child's ambient language in a Darwinian fashion. The book presents evidence for this perspective from the study of children's words and grammar, and how language changes over time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Charles Yang has been teaching computational linguistics and language acquisition at Yale since receiving his Ph.D. in computer science at MIT.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 019925415X
• ISBN 13: 9780199254156
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible