Considerable research indicates that learners are sensitive to probabilistic structure in
laboratory studies of artificial language learning. However, the artificial and simplified nature …

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 …

Now in a fifth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume
for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated …

Optimality Theory first gained wide exposure from a course taught by Prince and Smolensky
at the 1991 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America. The earliest and still the …

At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that
transcends all of biology. Any observation of a living system must ultimately be interpreted in …

Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar
(LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical
linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the …

It is a simple observation that children make mistakes when they learn a language. Yet, to
the trained eye, these mistakes are far from random; in fact, they closely resemble perfectly …

There are a variety of phonological asymmetries exhibited by segments which appear in
perceptually or psycholinguistically prominent positions such as roots, root-initial syllables …