'learning paths' instead of parameters

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> To emphasize one of Peter Gordon's comments and add a comment:
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The subset principle requires that a's grammar generate *all* of the 
sentences b's grammar generates, plus others.  It's not clear that there 
are any actual examples of that in the grammars children might be 
considering, even if one doesn't talk about what grammars generate but 
about what small parts of grammars generate.

E.g., in considering null subjects, one might think that Italian has more 
grammatical sentences than English does, because it includes sentences with 
and without subjects.  If that were so, English would be a subset of 
Italian with respect to subjects.  But English has sentences with expletive 
subjects and Italian doesn't.  The subset relation doesn't obtain.

Virginia Valian
Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center

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