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Halpern, Mark – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
A new solution is offered to the Infant Language Acquisition Problem, rejecting both of Chomsky's alternatives. It proposes that the infant does not acquire his mother tongue by mastering its grammar, whether by inference from personal experience or via an innate Language Acquisition Device such as the UG, but that the language he hears is all…
Descriptors: Native Language Instruction, Native Speakers, Language Acquisition, Infants