Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure by Jacques A. Mehler, Steven Pinker

Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure

Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change

Jacques A. Mehler, Steven Pinker

432 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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When children learn a language, they soon are able to make surprisingly subtle distinctions: "donate them a book" sounds odd, for example, even though "give them a book" is perfectly natural. How can this happen, given that children do not confine...

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