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Direct linkWeiss, Daniel J.; Newport, Elissa L. – Infancy, 2006
One of the longstanding issues in language research has been the extent to which the mechanisms underlying language acquisition are uniquely human. The primary goal of this article is to introduce the reader to some of the recent developments in comparative language research that have shed new light on this issue. To appreciate the significance of…
Descriptors: Language Research, Infants, Language Acquisition, Comparative Analysis
