Sentence First, Arguments Afterward: Essays in Language and Learning

by Lila Gleitman

Sentence First, Arguments Afterward collects the most important papers of Lila Gleitman's career, spanning over 50 years of work. These papers explore the nature of linguistic knowledge in children and adults by asking how children acquire language, how language and thought are related, the nature of concepts, and the role of syntax in shaping the direction of word learning. With an exclusive foreword by Noam Chomsky and an essay by Jeffrey Lidz contextualizing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199828091
• ISBN13: 9780199828098
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 920 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"