 | Ricardo Mairal, Juana Gil - 2006 - 19 pages
...Grammar] as a toolkit for constructing language, out of which the child (or better, the child's brain) f-selects tools appropriate to the job at hand. If...and tone, these parts of UG will simply be silent." 24 In Syntactic Structures the notion of UG is not made explicit. Chomsky only speaks of a "general... | |
 | Ignasi Navarro Ferrando, Nieves Alberola Crespo - 2006 - 184 pages
...RM], as a toolkit for constructing language, out of which the child (or better, the child's brain) f-selects tools appropriate to the job at hand, If...tone system (like Mandarin), UG will help shape the child 's acquisition of tone. But if the language in the environment happens to be English, which lacks... | |
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Grammar] as a toolkit for constructing language, out of which the child (or better, the child's brain) f-selects tools appropriate to the job at hand. If the language in the environment happens to have a case system (like German), UG will help shape the... 