• Title of article

    Simply disappointing: A response to Crain and Pietroski

  • Author/Authors

    Denis Bouchard، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    9
  • From page
    69
  • To page
    77
  • Abstract
    In a criticism of my paper ‘Exaption and Linguistic Explanation’, Crain and Pietroski argue that Generative Grammar provides deep generalizations concerning the way children acquire competence in languages. I show that their examples of analyses are mere descriptions and that an exaptive approach to language acquisition provides more insightful avenues to explore.
  • Keywords
    Acquisition , Generative descritivism , Exaptive explanation
  • Journal title
    Lingua(International Review of General Linguistics)
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Lingua(International Review of General Linguistics)
  • Record number

    1290419