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Learnability and cognition : the acquisition of argument structure

by Steven Pinker

This study examines language acquisition and the mental representation of categories such as space and causality. It investigates how children master verb usage and explores the relationship between linguistic structures and human thought.

Accession 9527 ISBN 9780262660730 Publisher MIT Press
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