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- Title
What about a (really) minimalist theory of language acquisition?
- Authors
Longa, Víctor M.; Lorenzo, Guillermo
- Abstract
The Minimalist Program introduced a new concept of language and added new content to the innateness position concerning our linguistic capacity. It also redefined the metatheoretical role of the theory of acquisition within generative grammar. This article explores at length all these issues and offers a critical survey of the disconcerting situation dominating today's relationship between syntacticians and acquisitionists.
- Subjects
MINIMALISM (Literature); GOVERNMENT-binding theory (Linguistics); SYNTAX (Grammar); LANGUAGE research; LANGUAGE acquisition; LINGUISTICS
- Publication
Linguistics, 2008, Vol 46, Issue 3, p541
- ISSN
0024-3949
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/LING.2008.018