Published on 20/03/11
New research to be published on Language, the journal of the Linguistic
Society of America (LSA) firmly establishes that language learning goes
well beyond simple imitation, and in fact that language learners are
quite creative and remarkably smart.
Not only are learners
able to generalize grammatical restrictions to new words in a category
as in this case, made-up adjectives - but they also do not learn these
restrictions in situations where they can be attributed to some
irrelevant factor. Read more...