RICH LANGUAGES FROM POOR INPUTS P - Piattelli-Palmarini

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Résumé :
This book addresses one of the most famous and controversial arguments in the study of language and mind, the Poverty of the Stimulus. Internationally recognised scholars consider afresh the issues surrounding this argument and discuss its relation to the process of language acquisition.

Biographie:

• 1: Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and Robert C Berwick: Introduction


• Part 1 Poverty of the Stimulus and Modularity Revisited


• 2: Robert C. Berwick, Noam Chomsky, and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini: Poverty of the Stimulus stands: Why recent challenges fail


• 3: Xuan-Nga Cao Kam and Janet Dean Fodor: Children's acquisition of syntax: Simple models are too simple


• 4: Noam Chomsky: Poverty of the Stimulus: Willingness to be puzzled


• 5: Susan Curtiss: Revisiting modularity: Using language as a window to the mind


• 6: Lila Gleitman and Barbara Landau: Every child an isolate: Nature's experiments in language learning


• Part 2: Discrepancies Between Child Grammar and Adult Grammar


• 7: Jean-R?(c)my Hochman and Jacques Mehler: Recent findings About language acquisition


• 8: Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi: Ways of avoiding intervention: Some thoughts on the development of object relatives, passive, and control


• 9: Itziar Laka: Merging from the temporal input: On subject-object asymmetries and an ergative language


• 10: Ken Wexler: Tough-movement developmental delay: Another effect of phasal computation


• 11: Julie Anne Legate and Charles Yang: Assessing child and adult grammar


• 12: Thomas G. Bever: Three aspects of the relation between lexical and syntactic knowledge


• Part 3: Broadening the Picture: Spelling andRreading


• 13: Charles Read and Rebecca Treiman: Children's invented spelling: What we have learned in forty years


• 14: Stephanie Gottwald and Maryane Wolf: How insights into child language changed the development of written language


• 15: Wayne O'Neil: The phonology of invented spelling


• 16: Merryl Goldberg: The arts as language: Invention, identity, and learning


• References


• Index