Accounts of language development can be broadly divided into two opposing camps: nativist theories and statistical learning accounts. We review the claims made by each about the role of the socially acquired linguistic data in language acquisition and consider the implications of each account on the likely evolutionary history of the language-learning capacity.</p
Acquisition and processing of written and spoken language is an impressive cognitive accomplishment ...
A key challenge for theories of language evolution is to explain why language is the way it is and h...
Language acquisition research experienced a boom following the Chomskyian revolution. The focus of a...
Accounts of language development can be broadly divided into two opposing camps: nativist theories a...
Our goal in this article is to review a debate over the evolution of language and to suggest some ke...
In this paper, we will develop some aspects of a psycholinguistic theory that tries to explain how o...
At the close of the 20th century, several influential theories of language acquisition had emerged o...
Chomsky (1965, 1986) presents a series of arguments for an innate syntactic component of the languag...
How did language develop and evolve? Here, linguists, cognitive scientists, behavioural ecologists, ...
Nativists inspired by Chomsky are apt to provide arguments with the follow-ing general form: languag...
Recent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which linguisti...
International audienceChomsky [Chomsky, N., 1965. Aspects of The Theory of Syntax. MIT Press, Cambri...
For the past half-century, psycholinguistic research has concerned itself with two mysteries of huma...
In this paper, we offer some insights that might contribute to the debate about English as a lingua ...
This thesis concerns the evolution of language. A proliferation of theoretical models have been pres...
Acquisition and processing of written and spoken language is an impressive cognitive accomplishment ...
A key challenge for theories of language evolution is to explain why language is the way it is and h...
Language acquisition research experienced a boom following the Chomskyian revolution. The focus of a...
Accounts of language development can be broadly divided into two opposing camps: nativist theories a...
Our goal in this article is to review a debate over the evolution of language and to suggest some ke...
In this paper, we will develop some aspects of a psycholinguistic theory that tries to explain how o...
At the close of the 20th century, several influential theories of language acquisition had emerged o...
Chomsky (1965, 1986) presents a series of arguments for an innate syntactic component of the languag...
How did language develop and evolve? Here, linguists, cognitive scientists, behavioural ecologists, ...
Nativists inspired by Chomsky are apt to provide arguments with the follow-ing general form: languag...
Recent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which linguisti...
International audienceChomsky [Chomsky, N., 1965. Aspects of The Theory of Syntax. MIT Press, Cambri...
For the past half-century, psycholinguistic research has concerned itself with two mysteries of huma...
In this paper, we offer some insights that might contribute to the debate about English as a lingua ...
This thesis concerns the evolution of language. A proliferation of theoretical models have been pres...
Acquisition and processing of written and spoken language is an impressive cognitive accomplishment ...
A key challenge for theories of language evolution is to explain why language is the way it is and h...
Language acquisition research experienced a boom following the Chomskyian revolution. The focus of a...
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