TY - BOOK ID - 71541291 TI - Born to parse : how children select their languages PY - 2020 SN - 0262358867 9780262358866 9780262044097 0262044099 0262358875 PB - Cambridge : The MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Language awareness in children KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Second language acquisition KW - Second language learning KW - Language acquisition KW - Language and languages KW - Syntax KW - Parsing (Grammar) KW - Children KW - Parsing KW - Study and teaching (Elementary) KW - Language KW - E-books KW - Language awareness in children. KW - Parsing. KW - Syntax. KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax KW - Parameters KW - Universal Grammar KW - parsing KW - language acquisition KW - variable properties KW - syntactic change KW - internal language KW - external language KW - learnability KW - phase transitions KW - domino effects KW - interfaces KW - population biology KW - individualism KW - Darwin's finches KW - Scandinavian languages KW - English KW - LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/Language Acquisition UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:71541291 AB - "This book represents a new approach to language acquisition and to variable properties in language. By taking a novel approach in allowing for an account of the acquisition of variable properties of language and a biologically plausible treatment of language variation, Lightfoot argues against the use of binary parameters, for the centrality of parsing in language acquisition, and for the "openness" of Universal Grammar"-- ER -