A central goal of modern generative grammar has been to discover invariant properties of
human languages that reflect “the innate schematism of mind that is applied to the data of …

One of the central concerns of current syntactic research is the characterization of the
mapping relating lexical meaning and syntactic form. An important facet of this com …

Comparative studies of linguistic faculties in animals pose an evolutionary paradox:
language involves certain perceptual and motor abilities, but it is not clear that this serves as …

A principles-and-parameters theory of U (niversal) G (rammar) proposed in Chomsky (1981)
provides us with the following picture of UG: UG consists of various separate modules such …

This landmark work in computational linguistics is of great importance both theoretically and
practically because it shows that much of English grammar can be learned by a simple …

Человеческий язык—уникальная система общения, которая есть только у Homo
sapiens. Почему и, главное, зачем мы научились разговаривать? Почему любой из нас …

Recent studies have shown clear evidence for critical period effects for both first and second
language acquisition on a broad range of learned, language-specific grammatical …

This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the
mind. In particular, it examines current work on the biology of language. Lyle Jenkins …

This critical history of research on acquired language deficits (aphasias) demonstrates the
usefulness of linguistic analysis of aphasic syndrome for neuropsychology, linguistics, and …

Children acquiring language infer the correct form of syntactic constructions for which they
appear to have little or no direct evidence, avoiding simple but incorrect generalizations that …