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Born to Parse
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LIGHTFOOT, David W.

An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, yielding 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 cont…

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Born to Parse: How Children Select Their Languages
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LIGHTFOOT, David W.

An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, yielding a view of language variation not based on parameters defined at UG. The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. In this book, David Lightfoot argues that just as some birds are born to chirp, huma…

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