The last 40 years have witnessed a growing interest in the mechanisms underlying the
visual identification of complex words. A large amount of experimental data has been …

Human infants develop language remarkably rapidly and without overt instruction. We argue
that the distinctive ontogenesis of child language arises from the interplay of three factors …

An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.
All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a …

" Morphology is the study of how words are put together. A lively introduction to the subject,
this textbook is intended for undergraduates with relatively little background in linguistics …

This book develops a theory of the morpheme in the framework of Distributed Morphology.
Particular emphasis is devoted to the way in which functional morphemes receive their …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

The generative enterprise in linguistics is roughly 50 years old, and it is reasonable to ask
what progress the field has made in certain areas over the past five decades. This article will …

Subject personal pronouns are highly variable in Spanish but nearly obligatory in many
contexts in English, and regions of Latin America differ significantly in rates and constraints …

There is considerable behavioral evidence that morphologically complex words such as 'tax-
able'and 'kiss-es' are processed and represented combinatorially. In other words, they are …

The present work proposes a computational model of morpheme combination at the
meaning level. The model moves from the tenets of distributional semantics, and assumes …