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After decades of research most scholars generally agree that language acquisition is a complex and multifaceted process that involves the interaction of innate biologically-based mechanisms devoted to language, other non-linguistic cognitive and social mechanisms, linguistic input, and information about the social and physical world. Theoretical work in the field of language acquisition now needs to focus in greater depth and detail on some specific aspects of this general model, which is the main goal of this book. The chapters in this volume provide some new insights into one of the most...

This text explores constraints on language acquisition by studying atypical children. It provides insights into how an innate language-specific biological substrate interacts with cognitive and social factors and external information to support the child's construction of a linguistic system.