Recent research has demonstrated that systematic mappings between phonological word
forms and their meanings can facilitate language learning (eg, in the form of sound …

Certain correspondences between the sound and meaning of words can be observed in
subsets of the vocabulary. These sound-symbolic relationships have been suggested to …

Inflectional affixes expressing the same grammatical category (eg, subject agreement) tend
to appear in the same morphological position in the word. We hypothesize that this cross …

Most of the action in linguistic theory under Chomsky's aegis has focused on questions of
how words are put together into sentences rather than on the words themselves. Fair …

It is a reasonable assumption that universal properties of natural languages are not
accidental. They occur either because they are underwritten by genetic code, because they …

Memory limitations are known to constrain language comprehension and production, and
have been argued to account for crosslinguistic word order regularities. However, a …

The forms of words as they appear in text and speech are central to theories and models of
lexical processing. Nonetheless, current methods for simulating their learning and …

Acquisition data have never prominently figured in linguistics despite the fact that the
ultimate goal of linguistics is to understand what constitutes knowledge of language and …

The linguistic input to language learning is usually thought to consist of simple strings of
words. We argue that input must also include information about how words group into …

It has been hypothesized that known words in the lexicon strengthen newly formed
representations of novel words, resulting in words with dense neighborhoods being learned …