Empiricism and Language Learnability
- ISBN-10
- 0191801895
- ISBN-13
- 9780191801891
- Category
- Cognitive psychology
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Authors
- John A. Goldsmith, Nick Chater, Amy Perfors
Description
This work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability. Written by four researchers in linguistics, psychology, computer science, and cognitive science, it sheds light on the problems of learnability and language, and their implications for key theoretical linguistics and the study of language acquisition.
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