Исследование вопроса о происхождении человеческого языка, или глоттогенеза,
похоже на детектив: слишком много версий и улики-доказательства приходится …

It is generally admitted that “syntax involves the stringing together of independent subunits
into a longer signal”(Hurford 2003: 43), and thereby allows an infinite number of such …

Debates concerning the types of representations that aid reading acquisition have often
been influenced by the relationship between measures of early phonological awareness …

В работе дан обзор материалов, полученных антропологами, нейрофизиологами,
археологами, генетиками, этологами, лингвистами в течение последних лет в ходе …

Rules are an efficient feature of natural languages which allow speakers to use a finite set of
instructions to generate a virtually infinite set of utterances. Yet, for many regular rules, there …

For a long time, human language has been assumed to be genetically determined and
therefore the product of biological evolution. It is only within the last decade that researchers …

Abstract Language is rule-governed. Language is flexible, creative and bursts with odd
patterns which then demonstrate a hidden regularity when examined further—or not. Which …

A generally held assumption about human statistical learning is that learners keep track of
the global statistics of the elements of interest across the entire set of stimuli they are …

Ambiguity is a defining property of natural language distinguishing it from artificial
languages. It would seem to be dysfunctional, and therefore its ubiquity in language poses …

Perlmutter (1971)'s seminal work on clitics has set much of the research model for ensuing
studies. Despite enormous changes in linguistic theory over the intervening period, models …