How do children achieve adult grammatical competence? How do they induce syntactical rules from the bewildering linguistic input that surrounds them? The major debates in language acquisition theory today focus...
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This book brings together investigations from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to examine how young children acquire the vocabulary of their native tongue with such rapidity and with virtually no errors along the way.
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This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language.
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