The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, at the University of Minnesota, supports a number of coordinated programs of research, training, development, and dissemination of information related to second language teaching, learning and assessment. The center has been designated as one of nine National Language Resource Centers, whose role is to improve the nation's capacity to ...

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Describes the idea that many aspects of first language learning may be understood in terms of information compression.

Language Acquisition Steven Pinker Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chapter to appear in L. R. Gleitman, M. Liberman, and D. N. Osherson (Eds.), An Invitation to Cognitive Science, 2nd Ed. Volume 1: Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. NONFINAL VERSION: PLEASE DO NOTE QUOTE. Preparation of the chapter was supported by NIH grant HD 18381 and NSF grant BNS 91-09766, and by the McDonnell-Pew ...