Recent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which linguistic structures are shaped through repeated cycles of learning and use by domain …
EC García - The Motivated Syntax of Arbitrary Signs, 2009 - torrossa.com
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 …
СА Бурлак - Происхождение языка: новые материалы и …, 2007 - cyberleninka.ru
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 …
Our target article argued that a genetically specified Universal Grammar (UG), capturing arbitrary properties of languages, is not tenable on evolutionary grounds, and that the close …
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 …
CL Caldwell-Harris - Language Studies in India: Cognition, Structure …, 2023 - Springer
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 …