language learning

[A. Katz]

Rob Freeman wrote:

>Has there been any debate on this issue: the fact that such "loss of
>generality" does not so much support innateness as it supports
>(functional centrality and) structural subjectivity?

In our book CYCLES IN LANGUAGE, co-author June Sun and I stress the
contrastive  function of language, and show that on both the phonological
and morphological level, the degree of opacity associated with the
subcomponents of linguistic units is directly related to the overall
systematicity of the morphological or phonological organization of such
units in the language as a whole.

Our current draft of the manuscript is available in pdf files for those
who are interested.


Best,


      --Aya Katz

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