The Emergence of an Abstract Grammatical Category in Children's Early Speech

How do children begin to use language to say things they have never heard before? The origins of linguistic productivity have been a subject of heated debate: Whereas generativist accounts posit that children's early language reflects the presence of syntactic abstractions, constructivist appro...

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Main Authors: Meylan, Stephan C. (Author), Frank, Michael C. (Author), Roy, Brandon Cain (Contributor), Levy, Roger P (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor), Levy, Roger, Philip (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sage Publications, 2018-01-11T15:33:48Z.
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