Yes, we still need Universal Grammar

Cognition

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-93

  Lidz, Jeffrey ^a,b   Gleitman, Lila R ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument structure; Statistical learning; Universal grammar

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COGNITION; CONVERSATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 4043129506     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.03.004     Document Type: Note

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