Language acquisition : knowledge representation and processing / Antonella Sorace, Caroline Heycock, Richard Shillcock, editors. - 1st ed. - Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland, 1999. - 263 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Papers presented at a conference held in Edinburgh in April 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : trends and convergences in language acquisition research // Very early parameter setting and the unique checking constraint // Aspects of root infinitives // Genitive subjects in child English // The second language instinct // Learning optimality - Theoretic grammars // Constraining the search for structure in the input // Words and rules // Author index // Subject index //

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Language acquisition--Congresses.

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