@ARTICLE{Yang2010,
  author = {Charles D Yang},
  title = {Three factors in language variation},
  journal = {Lingua},
  year = {2010},
  volume = {120},
  pages = {1160 - 1177},
  number = {5},
  abstract = {Universal Grammar and statistical generalization from linguistic data
	have almost always been invoked as mutually exclusive means of explaining
	child language acquisition. This papers show that such segregation
	is both conceptually unnecessary and empirically flawed. We demonstrate
	the utility of general learning mechanisms in the acquisition of
	the core grammatical system through frequency effects in parameter
	setting, and develop an optimization-based model of productivity
	with applications to morphology and syntax in the periphery. These
	findings in child language support the approach to the evolution
	of language that seeks connections between language and other cognitive
	systems, in particular the consequence of general principles of efficient
	computation.},
  doi = {10.1016/j.lingua.2008.09.015},
  issn = {0024-3841},
  keywords = {Parameter setting},
}

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