Price of Linguistic Productivity Yang Charles
An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a young child tease them…
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An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a young child tease them apart within just a few years of language acquisition? In this book, drawing an economic analogy, Charles Yang argues that just as the price of goods is determined by the balance between supply and demand, the price of linguistic productivity arises from the quantitative considerations of rules and exceptions. The learner postulates a productive rule only if it results in a more efficient organization of language, with the number of exceptions falling below a critical threshold.Supported by a wide range of cases with corpus evidence, Yang's Tolerance Principle gives a unified account of many long-standing puzzles in linguistics and psychology, including why children
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