Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on
neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one …

We find a general, language-independent pattern in child language acquisition in which
there is a clear difference between subject and object noun phrases. On one hand, indefinite …

This book investigates the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of
language, and the interactions between them, from the perspective of Optimality Theory. It …

At the phonological level, languages differ with respect to the amount of structural complexity
they permit. However, even though a language may permit complex structures (eg, onset …

This dissertation investigates the role of Universal Grammar (UG) in the adult second
language acquisition of phonological stress. Specifically, it examines whether universal …

It is generally agreed upon today that bilingual children are able to differentiate their two
languages as early as the babbling stage, but that the child is able to make such a …

Young French children freely produce subject pronouns by the age of 2. However, by age 2
and a half they fail to interpret 3rd person pronouns in an experimental setting designed to …

This dissertation investigates the relationship between competence and processing in
children's first language acquisition, particularly of biclausal wh-questions. English-speaking …

This article reports on a series of 5 analyses of spontaneous production of verbal inflection
(tense and person–number agreement) by 2‐year‐olds acquiring French as a native …

Among the set of processes posited in psycholinguistic theories of spoken language
production is the translation (or'mapping') from a basic representation of sound structure …