From Simple Input to Complex Grammar

by James L. Morgan

The paradox of how children regularly learn highly complex natural languages upon limited exposure to simple data lies at the center of any study of language acquisition. This book explores a new and important hypothesis for how young children might be able to learn a language from very simple sentences. The Bracketed Input Hypothesis suggests that children may receive information from their input about how the words of sentences group together to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262132176
• ISBN13: 9780262132176
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 236 Pages