Psychology
Language and the Mind
How a child cracks a code nobody explains, and the two-language mind
Chomsky · Tomasello · Bialystok · 3 chapters · 8 min read
How a child gets a grammar nobody taught them, and what that argues about.
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Acquiring and Losing It
- 01How a Child Gets a GrammarOn the one word that shows a child has worked out a rule.
- 02Is Grammar Built In?On sixty years of argument in which both sides got better evidence and neither won.
- 03Two Languages in One HeadOn two systems that are never switched off, and a literature that had to be corrected.