Born to Parse
How Children Select Their Languages
David W. Lightfoot
- An
- argument
- that
- children
- are
- born
- to
- assign
- structures
- to
- their
- ambient
- language,
- which
- feeds
- a
- view
- of
- language
- variation
- not
- based
- on
- parameters
- defined
- at
- UG.In
- this
- book,
- David
- Lightfoot
- argues
- that
- just
- as
- some
- birds
- are
- born
- to
- chirp,
- humans
- are
- born
- to
- parse--predisposed
- to
- assign
- linguistic
- structures
- to
- their
- ambient
- external
- language.
- This
- approach
- to
- language
- acquisition
- makes
- two
- contributions
- to
- the
- development
- of
- Minimalist thinking.
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