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It is a simple observation that children make mistakes when they learn a language. Yet, to the trained eye, these mistakes are far from random; in fact, they closely resemble perfectly grammatical utterances by adults--who speak other languages. This type of error analysis suggests a novel view of language learning: children are born with a fixed set of hypotheses about language--Chomsky's Universal Grammar--and these hypotheses compete to match the child's ambient language in a Darwinian fashion. The book presents evidence for this perspective from the study of children's words and grammar, and how language changes over time.

@book{yang03languageLearning,
  author={Charles D. Yang},
  title={Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language},
  year={2003},
  publisher={Oxford University Press},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/yang03languageLearning.html}
}