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Direct linkCrain, Stephen; Goro, Takuya; Thornton, Rosalind – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
According to the theory of Universal Grammar, the primary linguistic data guides children through an innately specified space of hypotheses. On this view, similarities between child-English and adult-German are as unsurprising as similarities between cousins who have never met. By contrast, experience-based approaches to language acquisition…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech Communication, Language Variation, Child Language
