On the intricacy of children's innate abstractions

Acquisition theory should be able to provide an explanation for the complexity of adult grammar, and the stages children go through in their path to attain the abstractness of the adult system. Current debate obscures the problem by failing to explicitly address the complexity of early representatio...

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Published inInfancia y aprendizaje Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 315 - 318
Main Authors Roeper, Thomas, Pèrez-Leroux, Ana T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England Routledge 2011
SAGE Publications
Subjects
abstracción grammatical
continuidad
continuity
ellipsis
grammatical abstraction
Negación
Negation
recursion
recursión
recursión
continuidad
Negation
abstracción grammatical
continuity
grammatical abstraction
Negación
recursion
ellipsis
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Summary:Acquisition theory should be able to provide an explanation for the complexity of adult grammar, and the stages children go through in their path to attain the abstractness of the adult system. Current debate obscures the problem by failing to explicitly address the complexity of early representations. It is fundamental to offer concrete proposals that can fully characterise the early stages of development.
ISSN:0210-3702
1578-4126
DOI:10.1174/021037011797238513