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Baron, Naomi S. 1983. Linguistic saturation and linguistic failure: A functional view of language acquisition. In Borbé, Tasso, ed. Semiotics unfolding: Proceedings of the Second Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Vienna, July 1979. Mouton. pp. 1059–1066.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

Structural models of acquisition are said to be unable to handle the notion of failures. B. proposes a saturation model which does not only account for the formal structures which speakers learn to produce but which can also explain why some structures are learned and others not.