Our use of language depends upon two capacities: a mental lexicon of memorized words
and a mental grammar of rules that underlie the sequential and hierarchical composition of …

It is often assumed that similar domain-specific behavioural impairments found in cases of
adult brain damage and developmental disorders correspond to similar underlying causes …

The medieval curriculum comprised seven liberal arts, divided into the lower-level trivium
(grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the upper-level quadrivium (geometry, astronomy …

Cognitive science approaches the study of mind and intelligence from an interdisciplinary
perspective, working at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence …

Are morphological patterns learned in the form of rules? Some models deny this, attributing
all morphology to analogical mechanisms. The dual mechanism model (Pinker, S., & Prince …

Language comprises a lexicon for storing words and a grammar for generating rule-
governed forms. Evidence is presented that the lexicon is part of a temporal-parietalhnedial …

To what extent, if any, does Universal Grammar (UG) constrain second language (L2)
acquisition? This is not only an empirical question, but one which is currently investigable. In …

Language is often explained as the product of generative rules and a memorized lexicon.
For example, most English verbs take a regular past tense suffix (ask-asked), which is …

This book is a definitive reference source for the growing, increasingly more important, and
interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling, that is, computational psychology …

Learning the English past tense is characterized by a U-shaped learning function for the
irregular verbs. Existing cognitive models often rely on a sudden increase in vocabulary, a …