Empiricism and Language Learnability
- ISBN-10
- 0198734263
- ISBN-13
- 9780198734260
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-07-09
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Authors
- John A. Goldsmith, Nick Chater, Amy Perfors
Description
This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability. The authors, from different backgrounds---linguistics, philosophy, computer science, psychology and cognitive science-explore the idea that language acquisition proceeds through general purpose learning mechanisms, an approach that is broadly empiricist both methodologically and psychologically. Written by four researchers in the full range ofrelevant fields: linguistics (John Goldsmith), psychology (Nick Chater), computer science (Alex Clark), and cognitive science (Amy Perfors), the book sheds light on the central problems of learnabilityand language, and traces their implications for key questions of theoretical linguistics and the study of language acquisition.
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