8.1274, Books: Available for Review: Syntax, Lg Acq.

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SYNTAX:

Kitahara, Hisatsugu (1997) Elementary Operations and Optimal Derivations.
	Linguistic Inquiry Monograph #13. MIT Press. Cambridge

Kitahara advances Noam Chomsky's Minimalist Program with a number of
innovative proposals. The analysis is primarily concerned with the
elementary operations of the computational system for human language and with
the principles of UG that constrain derivations generated by that system.
Many conditions previously assumed to be axiomatic are deduced from the
interaction of more fundamental principles of UG.


LANGUAGE ACQUISITION:

Brent, Michael (ed) (1997) Computational Approaches to Language Acquisition.
	Bradford Book. MIT Press/Elsevier Science. Cambridge

Each of the 4 papers in this book takes a novel formal approach to a
particular problem in language acquisition. In the first paper. J.M.
Siskind looks at how children learn the meanings of words. Brent and
Cartwright look at how children discover the sounds of words. Resnik
measures the association between verbs and the semantic categories of
their arguments that children use as clues to verb meanings. Niyogi and
Berwick address the setting of syntactic parameters.



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