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Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) (Learning Development, Conceptual Change Series) by Steven Pinker, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Susan Carey, Lila Gleitman, Elissa L. Newport is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) (Learning Development, Conceptual Change Series) about?
When children learn a language, they soon are able to make surprisingly subtle distinctions: "donate them a book" sounds odd, for example, even though "give them a book" is perfectly natural. How can this happen, given that children do not confine themselves to the sentence types they hear, and are usually not corrected when they speak ungrammatically? Steven Pinker resolves this paradox in a detailed theory of how children acquire argument structure.In tackling a learning paradox that has challenged scholars for more than a decade, Pinker synthesizes a vast literature in linguistics and psycholinguistics and outlines explicit theories of the mental representation, learning, and development of verb meaning and verb syntax. The new theory that he describes has some surprising implications for the relation between language and thought.Pinker's solution provides insight into such key questions as, When do children generalize and when do they stick with what they hear? What is the rati
Who reads Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) (Learning Development, Conceptual Change Series)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Steven Pinker, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Susan Carey, Lila Gleitman, Elissa L. Newport
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262281614
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Language Learning, Literary Fiction
Other editions & translations
- Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) (1989)
- Learnability and Cognition, new edition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) (2013)
- Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) (2013)
- Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) (Learning Development, Conceptual Change Series (1989)
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