In the generative tradition, the language faculty has been shrinking—perhaps to include only
the mechanism of recursion. This paper argues that even this view of the language faculty is …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Most current approaches to linguistic structure suggest that language is recursive, that
recursion is a fundamental property of grammar, and that independent performance …

Abstract Language acquisition in both natural and artificial language learning settings
crucially depends on extracting information from ordered sequences. A shared sequence …

Abstract Christiansen & Chater (C&C) propose that language comprehenders must
immediately compress perceptual data by “chunking” them into higher-level categories …

Recent research on natural language processing tools, motivated by the need to improve
their efficiency to handle web-scale data, has arrived at models that remarkably match the …

If human language must be squeezed through a narrow cognitive bottleneck, what are the
implications for language processing, acquisition, change, and structure? In our target …

Signed and spoken languages emerge, change, are acquired, and are processed under
distinct perceptual, motor, and memory constraints. Therefore, the Now-or-Never bottleneck …

Christiansen and Chater's Now-or-Never framework is similar to the Good-Enough
Language Processing model (Ferreira, Bailey, & Ferraro, 2002), particularly in its emphasis …