ABSTRACT

First published in 1988. This is a collection of essays that were presented at or generated afterwards at a meeting on language acquisition Society Development in April 1981: a symposium on “The Development of Language and Language Researchers: Whatever Happened to Linguistic Theory?” in Boston.

chapter 3|13 pages

Faith, Doubt, and Meaning

chapter 5|18 pages

The Parser's Architecture

chapter 12|12 pages

Language and Socialization

chapter 14|20 pages

Why Bilinguals?

chapter 16|13 pages

Learning Poetic Language

chapter |2 pages

Afterword