# Born to Parse

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- Book: [Born to Parse](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-w-lightfoot/born-to-parse) ([Born to Parse.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-w-lightfoot/born-to-parse.md))
- Authors: [David W. Lightfoot](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-w-lightfoot)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6204-409-7
- Pages: 210
- Published: 2020-08-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, yielding a view of language variation not based on parameters defined at UG. In this book, David Lightfoot argues that...