The most exciting hypothesis in cognitive science right now is the theory that cognition is
embodied. Like all good ideas in cognitive science, however, embodiment immediately …

In this article we do two things: in the first half, we trace the emergence and development of
ecological linguistics, or ecolinguistics, from the early 1970s. Having contrasted the …

The discriminative lexicon is introduced as a mathematical and computational model of the
mental lexicon. This novel theory is inspired by word and paradigm morphology but …

Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are
all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the …

The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language
acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly …

In this discussion note, I argue that we need to distinguish carefully between descriptive
categories, that is, categories of particular languages, and comparative concepts, which are …

This article is a crosslinguistic investigation of the hypothesis that the average information
rate conveyed during speech communication results from a trade-off between average …

Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

Introduction Structural categories of grammar (such as clitic, affix, compound, adjective,
pronoun, dative, subject, passive, diphthong, coronal) have to be posited by linguists and by …

This book looks at the range of possible syllables in human languages. The syllable is a
central notion in phonology but basic questions about it remain poorly understood and …