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Download full textRandall, Janet H. – 1984
A line of reasoning used in recent research on language acquisition assumes that a child acquiring the language has only two reliable sources of information available about the target grammar: a set of grammatical principles and the primary data of the language spoken around him. A third kind of evidence, negative evidence, would be helpful but is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Generalization, Grammar
