On the intricacy of children's innate abstractions

• Published in: Infancia y aprendizaje Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 315 - 318
• Main Authors: Roeper, Thomas, Pèrez-Leroux, Ana T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...