The neglected universals: Learnability constraints and discourse cues

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 471-472

  Waterfall, Heidi ^a,b   Edelman, Shimon ^a,c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAREGIVER; CHILD DIRECTED SPEECH; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LINGUISTICS; NOTE; SPEECH;

EID: 76249088289     PISSN: 0140525X     EISSN: 14691825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X09990756     Document Type: Note

References (2)

1. Language may also be expected to evolve in the direction of a better fit between its structure and the learners' abilities (Christiansen & Chater 2008
2. Social cues complement and reinforce structural ones in this context (Goldstein & Schwade 2008).