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Language acquisition in optimality theory
2009
Linguistics
In optimality theory (OT) the essence of both language learning in general (learnability) and language acquisition (the actual development children go through) entails the ranking of constraints from an initial state of the grammar to the language-specific ranking of the target grammar. This is the common denominator in all OT studies on language acquisition and learning. There are many unsettled issues, however. Are the constraints innate or do they emerge during acquisition (nature-nurture)?
doi:10.1515/ling.2009.012
fatcat:lbdqutfnjbfvdb5pqdpibwlata