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David Lightfoot

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25

Publications

2.1K

Citations

20

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1973

Active since

Affiliations

University of Maryland, College Park(Current)

McGill University

Georgetown University

David Lightfoot is an author at University of Maryland, College Park specializing in language studies, linguistics, and grammar.

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LanguageLinguisticsGrammarSyntaxPsycholinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsLanguage AcquisitionLanguage ChangeLanguage LearningSemantics

Publications per year

1973–2019

25

Publications

25

How to set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change

Mark Hale, David Lightfoot · Language · 1994 · 670 citations

Language Experience, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics +22

The child's trigger experience: Degree-0 learnability

David Lightfoot · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1989 · 298 citations

Language Experience, Language Evolution, Educational Psychology +34

Mechanisms of Syntactic Change

David Lightfoot, Charles N. Li · Language · 1979 · 167 citations

Applied Linguistics, Syntax, Language Change +6

Two Types of Locality

David Lightfoot, Joseph Aoun, Norbert Hornstein et al. · DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) · 1987 · 143 citations · Full text

Spatial Theory, Urban Geography, Similarity Measure +2

Predication and Pro

Norbert Hornstein, David Lightfoot · Language · 1987 · 135 citations

Automated Reasoning, Logical Reasoning, Abductive Reasoning +1

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