The Logical problem of language acquisition
By: edited by C.L. Baker and John J. McCarthy.
Contributors: Baker, C. L.; McCarthy, John J., 1953-
Series: MIT Press series on cognitive theory and mental representation
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Language acquisition -- Congresses; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Congresses; Language and logic -- Congresses
Notes: Bibliography: p. 330-344.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Learnability, restrictiveness, and the evaluation metric / Howard Lasnik; title: Some issues in the theory of learnability / Kenneth Wexler; title: A readjustment in the learnability assumptions / Edwin Williams; title: The history of noun phrase movement / David Lightfoot; title: On the deductive model and the acquisition of productive morphology / Thomas Roeper; title: Form, function, and the language acquisition device / Jane Grimshaw; title: On the learnability of abstract phonology / Bezalel Elan Dresher; title: The role of the evaluation metric in the acquisition of phonology / John J. McCarthy; title: Strict bounding / Mark R. Baltin; title: Learnability and the English auxiliary system / C.L. Baker.