{"product_id":"knowledge-and-learning-in-natural-language-9780199254156","title":"Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles D. Yang\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a simple observation that children make mistakes when they learn a language. Yet, to the trained eye, these mistakes are far from random; in fact, they closely resemble perfectly grammatical utterances by adults--who speak \u003cem\u003eother\u003c\/em\u003e languages. This type of error analysis suggests a novel view of language learning: children are born with a fixed set of hypotheses about language--Chomsky's Universal Grammar--and these hypotheses compete to match the child's ambient language in a Darwinian fashion. The book presents evidence for this perspective from the study of children's words and grammar, and how language changes over time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46897426137239,"sku":"9780199254156","price":6359.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199254156.webp?v=1770362695","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/knowledge-and-learning-in-natural-language-9780199254156","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}