One of the most basic concerns in the writings of Noam Chomsky, beginning in Syntactic
Structures and extending through his recent work, has been to draw attention to the …

How does a child become bilingual? The answer to this intriguing question remains largely
a mystery, not least because it has been far less extensively researched than the process of …

The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists
and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we have essentially …

This collection of conference papers includes:" When Does Teacher Talk Work as Input?";"
Cultural Input in Second Language Learning";" Skilled Variation in a Kindergarten Teacher's …

The history of transformational-generative grammar can be divided into two periods, which
can be called expansion and retrenchment. During the early" expansion" period, a primary …

Ainsi, à contre-courant du rationalisme scientifique triomphant dans la pensée occidentale
et contre «l'idée que le rationalisme est la seule théorie de la connaissance que validerait le …

The hypothesis that I investigate in this monograph is that the linguistic part of children's
input—utterances—consists of more than simple strings of words. Rather, I suggest, the …

The aim of this book, first published in 1979, is to provide a sound basic introduction to the
study of grammar within linguistics. The work concentrates primarily on the core of …

I would like to distinguish roughly between two kinds of issues that arise in the study of
language and mind: those that appear to be within the reach of approaches and concepts …

Recent challenges from a variety of fields suggest a re‐examination of the nativist position
and its implications for child language and communication research and theory. Basic …