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Logical issues in language acquisition

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Author(s): Iggy M. Roca (editor)
Series: Linguistics Models 15
Publisher: Foris Publications
Year: 1990

Language: English
City: Dordrecht
Tags: Acquisition

Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
The logical problem of language acquisition: representational and procedural issues
Observational data and the UG theory of language acquisition
Parameters of Metrical Theory and Learnability
Markedness and growth
Nativist and Functional Explanations in Language Acquisition
Locality and Parameters again
On the rhythm parameter in phonology
Dependencies in the Lexical Setting of Parameters: a solution to the undergeneralisation problem
The Nature of Children's Initial Grammars of English
Null Subjects, Markedness, and Implicit Negative Evidence
Second Language Learnability
Can Pragmatics fix Parameters?
Author Index
Subject Index