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Gleitman et al: The Impossibility of Language Acquisition (and How They Do It) [469df1a9]

Tags: papers, languages/linguistics

Major question to answer: when langauge input to the child is restricted, what is left to explain language acquisition?

Thesis: Argument structure is encoded within syntax and children learn word meanings in epiphanies