Language learnability and language development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24246309 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Pinker (0000-0002-2319-4085) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Pages | 435 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Language Learnability and Language Development, Clifton Pye, 1985 |
| Venue | Language learnability and language development (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| ISBN | 9780674510548 |
| Open Library | OL2838882M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 294 |
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The Impossibility of Language Acquisition (and How They Do It)
A Case Study About a Student's Reluctance to Speak in the Target Language in Classroom Setting
The morphome in constructive and abstractive models of morphology
Effects of age on the acquisition of agreement inflection
Rich inflection and the production of finite verbs in child language
"Look up!" Using easy words to explain how we learn hard words and other aspects of language, an interview with Lila Gleitman
Language adaptation and learning
Motor Influences on Grammar in an Emergentist Model of Phonology
Up to D[eb]ate on Raising and Control Part 2
Reviving Whorf
Oti, na and Negative Markers in the L1 Production of Greek wh-Questions
Early Understanding of Subject and Object Wh‐Questions
Year‐Old Children Use Animacy and Syntax to Learn a New Noun
Syntactic Categorization in French‐Learning Infants
Six‐Month‐Olds' Detection of Clauses Embedded in Continuous Speech
Learning English Bilingually
Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology and the Regular-Irregular Debate
Aspectual interpretation of early verb forms in German
Studies on the development of grammar in German, Russian and Bulgarian
The 'Shell Game
The logical problem of second language acquisition of argument structure
Verbs in Tzotzil (Mayan) early syntactic development
Language specific bootstraps for UG categories
The multilingual potential in emerging grammars
The transition to grammar in a bilingual child
Meaning before grammar
Modality, Infinitives, and Finite Bare Verbs in Dutch and English Child Language
Acquiring Causative Constructions in Japanese as a Second Language
Theorising terminology development
Learning How to Say What One Means
Ever Since Descartes
A gestural account of a child-specific neutralisation in strong position
Towards a lexically specific grammar of children’s question constructions
Le langage est-il un instinct ? Sur le nativisme de Pinker
Reframing linguistic bootstrapping as joint inference using visually-grounded grammar induction models
Relations between teachers’ subject matter knowledge, teaching experience and their mental models of children’s minds and learning
Modularity and the Facilitation Effect
Effects of grammatical and semantic clues on verb acquisition in Chinese-speaking children
What causes languages to be transparent
The real-world colour of the dative alternation
More lexically-specific knowledge and individual differences in adult native speakers' processing of the English passive
Towards an anthropology of language acquisition
Form and function in syntactic theory
Phonological constraint induction in a connectionist network
Cross-linguistic differences in talking about scenes
The pragmatic underpinnings of syntactic competences
The twitter machine. Reflections on language
The distributional structure of grammatical categories in speech to young children
Developing and Testing Rational Models of Message Design
Effects of communication tasks on the grammatical relations marked by second language learners
Language Processing and Second Language Development
Testable theories of core first language acquisition
The interface between neighborhood density and optional infinitives
First language development
Understanding the developmental dynamics of subject omission
The interpretation of logical connectives in Turkish
Early passive acquisition in Inuktitut
Nouns in early lexicons
Acquisition of the polarity sensitive item renhe ‘any’ in Mandarin Chinese
Prosodic differences between declaratives and interrogatives in infant-directed speech
An experimental test of phonemic cyclicity
Child language research
Syntactic distinctions in child language
Theoretical implications of complement structure acquisition in Korean
Sensitivity of children's inflection to grammatical structure
‘There car’
The syntactic and semantic features of two-year-olds’ verb vocabularies
Children use syntax to learn verb meanings
Theory and predictions for the development of morphology and syntax
Discourse and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes
Induction and the acquisition of English auxiliaries
Finding meaning in a noisy world
Feedback to first language learners
Determinants of acquisition order in wh-questions
Syntactic categories in the speech of young children
The relation of children's single word utterances to single word utterances in the input
Syntax and semantics in the acquisition of locative verbs
The effects of the pronoun me on dative comprehension
Differential responding to two- and three-year-olds' utterances
Acquisition of demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective
Love is hard to understand
A little goes a long way
Ties between lexical and grammatical development
Limits on negative information in language input
Children's knowledge of hierarchical phrase structure
Morphology before syntax
Constructivist Approaches to First Language Acquisition
Second-language acquisition via immersion in daycare
Infants' sensitivity to word boundaries in fluent speech
The effect of sampling on estimates of lexical specificity and error rates
Weird past tense forms
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping
The development of the causative construction in Persian child language
Can children use a verb without exposure to its argument structure
Explaining quantitative variation in the rate of Optional Infinitive errors across languages
Variability, negative evidence, and the acquisition of verb argument constructions
An event-semantic account of spatial modification in the acquisition of Mandarin
On the early learning of formal grammatical systems
Acquisition of complementation
| Citations per year | 6.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1978 - 2026 (49) |
| Highly cited | Yes |