The result of extensive scholarship and consultation with leading scholars, this text
introduces students to twenty-four theorists and compares and contrasts their theories on …

A central goal of modern generative grammar has been to discover invariant properties of
human languages that reflect “the innate schematism of mind that is applied to the data of …

While usage-based approaches to language development enjoy considerable support from
computational studies, there have been few attempts to answer a key computational …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar
(LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides …

When acquiring syntax, children consistently choose hierarchical rules over competing non-
hierarchical possibilities. Is this preference due to a learning bias for hierarchical structure …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to
support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE …

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

Learners that are exposed to the same training data might generalize differently due to
differing inductive biases. In neural network models, inductive biases could in theory arise …

Children acquiring language infer the correct form of syntactic constructions for which they
appear to have little or no direct evidence, avoiding simple but incorrect generalizations that …