Empiricism and Language Learnability

by John A. Goldsmith, Nick Chater, Alexander Clark

This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability. The authors, from different backgrounds---linguistics, philosophy, computer science, psychology and cognitive science-explore the idea that language acquisition proceeds through general purpose learning mechanisms, an approach that is broadly empiricist both methodologically and psychologically.

For many years, the empiricist approach...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198734263
• ISBN13: 9780198734260
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"