Universal Grammar (UG) is a complicated set of grammatical rules that underlies our grammatical capacity. We all follow the rules of UG, but we were never taught them, and we could not have learned them from trial and error experience either (not enough data, or time). So UG must be inborn. But for similar reasons, it seems implausible that UG was “learned” by trial and error evolution either: What was the variation and competition? And what were UG’s adaptive advantages? So this leaves the hard problem of explaining where our brain’s UG capacity came from. Christiansen & Chater (C&C) suggest an answer: Language is an organism, like us, and our brains were not selected for UG capacity; rather, languages were selected for learnabilit...
“Universal Grammar” or UG has been a popular term since the early 1980s, or more precisely since the...
This paper reviews arguments against the evolutionary plausibility of a traditional genetically spec...
Universal Grammar (UG) has been one of the core ideas of generative grammar since its inception. Obv...
Universal Grammar (UG) is a complicated set of grammatical rules that underlies our grammatical capa...
It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are intimately related...
This paper argues against the viability of a traditional genetically-specified universal grammar(UG)...
The first part of this paper discusses the rationale for universal grammar (UG) theory to explain fi...
For many, language is viewed as something that is actively learned through sensory stimulus and trai...
The first part of this paper discusses the rationale for universal grammar (UG) theory to explain fi...
Two potential arguments are cinsidered for Universal Grammar other than that based on poverty of the...
Proponents of a Universal Grammar argue that humans are born with a dedicated language system that s...
Proponents of a Universal Grammar argue that humans are born with a dedicated language system that s...
I think that everybody is interested in the question of how humans acquire language and what langua...
Generative Linguistics proposes that the human ability to produce and comprehend language is fundame...
Many generalizations are impossible to learn via primary linguistic data, so they are assumed to be ...
“Universal Grammar” or UG has been a popular term since the early 1980s, or more precisely since the...
This paper reviews arguments against the evolutionary plausibility of a traditional genetically spec...
Universal Grammar (UG) has been one of the core ideas of generative grammar since its inception. Obv...
Universal Grammar (UG) is a complicated set of grammatical rules that underlies our grammatical capa...
It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are intimately related...
This paper argues against the viability of a traditional genetically-specified universal grammar(UG)...
The first part of this paper discusses the rationale for universal grammar (UG) theory to explain fi...
For many, language is viewed as something that is actively learned through sensory stimulus and trai...
The first part of this paper discusses the rationale for universal grammar (UG) theory to explain fi...
Two potential arguments are cinsidered for Universal Grammar other than that based on poverty of the...
Proponents of a Universal Grammar argue that humans are born with a dedicated language system that s...
Proponents of a Universal Grammar argue that humans are born with a dedicated language system that s...
I think that everybody is interested in the question of how humans acquire language and what langua...
Generative Linguistics proposes that the human ability to produce and comprehend language is fundame...
Many generalizations are impossible to learn via primary linguistic data, so they are assumed to be ...
“Universal Grammar” or UG has been a popular term since the early 1980s, or more precisely since the...
This paper reviews arguments against the evolutionary plausibility of a traditional genetically spec...
Universal Grammar (UG) has been one of the core ideas of generative grammar since its inception. Obv...