PolyU Library
Journal Call no.P57.H6C44
AuthorLee, Hun-tak Thomas.
Article TitleThe learnability of locality conditions on qualification / Thomas Hun-tak Lee.
Is Part OfCUHK papers in linguistics ; no.3, 1991, p.28-48, illus.
AbstractIn this paper, the author discusses empirical findings from the first language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese suggesting that certain properties of the logical form of natural language are not learned from experience. These unlearnable properties appear to manifest themselves in the child's linguistic knowledge as soon as prerequisite conditions are met.