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An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, yielding a view of language variation not based on parameters defined at UG

Table of Contents

Preface
1 Three Visions
2 Three New Parses
3 Parsing and Variable Properties
4 Parsing at Interfaces
5 Population Biology: The Spread of New Variable Properties
6 Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Selection
Notes
References
Index

About the Author

David W. Lightfoot is Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program, and Codirector of the Interdisciplinary PhD Concentration in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University.