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Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development

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2020
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Stoll, S. (2020). Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development. In C. Rowland, K. E. Twomey, B. Ambridge, & A. Theakston (Eds.), Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition (No. 27; Issue 27, pp. 247–263). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.27.11sto

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Humans have an innate capacity to learn language. This is an undisputed fact. However, what this capacity actually consists of has yet to be worked out in full detail. The main reason for this is that language is an abstract capacity which manifests in thousands of languages that vary widely in every possible domain, and which change continuously over time. Furthermore, empirical research shows that linguistic features of individual languages can influence the learning process and so bias any generalizations about the human capacity f

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  • Rowland, Caroline
  • Twomey, Katherine E
  • Ambridge, Ben
  • Theakston, Anna

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Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition

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Amsterdam, Philadelphia

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247

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263

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English

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2020

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2023-11-01

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Trends in Language Acquisition Research

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1569-0644

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9789027261007

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128 since deposited on 2023-11-01
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Stoll, S. (2020). Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development. In C. Rowland, K. E. Twomey, B. Ambridge, & A. Theakston (Eds.), Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition (No. 27; Issue 27, pp. 247–263). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.27.11sto

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