Born to Parse

How Children Select Their Languages

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  • 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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