Through their in-depth treatment of existing proposals of initial transfer and critical synthesis of the data available to date, the authors inject insight into theory building that both provides ...

made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky's influential approach into the twenty-first ...

Chomsky completely disagreed. He tore Skinner's theories apart, showing language couldn't possibly be understood in this way. For one thing, he pointed out, children don't get enough exposure to ...