What is language development?

de James Russell · Publicada por primera vez en 2004

"This is the first time that the three major theories in language development research have been fully described and compared within the covers of a single book. The three approaches: (1) The rationalism of Chomsky and the syntactic nativism that it entails; (2) The empiricism instinct in connectionist modelling of syntactic development; (3) The pragmatism of those who see the child as actively 'constructing' a grammatical 'inventory' piece-by-piece by recruiting general learning abilities and socio-cognitive knowledge." "The book is a balance between broad philosophical assessment of these three theories and fine-grain, fairly technical, accounts of how they fare at the empirical and linguistic 'coal faces.' It will be an important text for developmental psychologists, linguists, and philosophers working on language."--Jacket.