David W. Lightfoot Books
How to Set Parameters
Over the past decade, generative grammarians have viewed language acquisition as a process of fixing option points or parameters defined in Universal Grammar. Here David Lightfoot addresses the cru...
Read MoreThe Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology
By David W. Lightfoot, Stephen R. Anderson
"Challenging and original, The Language Organ treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology. Its functional propert...
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