Dean’s Seminar: Language Acquisition
Audio Version (to download right-click and 'Save link as...')
- Speaker(s):
- Professor Virginia Valian, Hunter College, New York School Visiting Professorial Fellow, 2008-09 Chaired by Professor Roderick Floud, School of Advanced Study
- Event date:
- Wednesday 22 April 2009
School of Advanced Study, University of London
- Description
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When children start to put words together, they leave words out. They say things like "want lollipop". But across a range of languages, children make very few errors of commission and are sensitive to very subtle regularities. Why, then, are there errors of omission?