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Language acquisition in the absence of experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

Stephen Crain
Stephen Crain
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Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, Electronic mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

A fundamental goal of linguistic theory is to explain how natural languages are acquired. This paper describes some recent findings on how learners acquire syntactic knowledge for which there is little, if any, decisive evidence from the environment. The first section presents several general observations about language acquisition that linguistic theory has tried to explain and discusses the thesis that certain linguistic properties are innate because they appear universally and in the absence of corresponding experience. A third diagnostic for innateness, early emergence, is the focus of the second section of the paper, in which linguistic theory is tested against recent experimental evidence on children's acquisition of syntax.

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acquisitionchild language developmentgrammarinnate competencelanguage learnabilitymaturationparameter theorypsycholinguisticssyntactic development
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 1991 , pp. 597 - 612
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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