E. Clark
1993
The Lexicon in Acquisition
Cambridge University Press, 1993
Eve Clark argues for the centrality of the lexicon in language and language acquisition. She looks at the hypotheses children draw on about possible word meanings, and how they map their meanings onto forms. Starting with children's emerging knowledge of conventional ...
1987
The principle of contrast: A constraint on language acquisition
Mechanisms of language acquisition, pages 1-33, 1987
Different words mean different things. That is, wherever there is a difference in form in a language, there is a difference in meaning. This is what, in 1980, I called the Principle of Contrast.'It is by virtue of this property that language maintains its usefulness as a medium ...MORE ⇓
Different words mean different things. That is, wherever there is a difference in form in a language, there is a difference in meaning. This is what, in 1980, I called the Principle of Contrast.'It is by virtue of this property that language maintains its usefulness as a medium ...