Universal Grammar and Consciousness

Universal Grammar is a universal grammar

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Type Theory and Universal Grammar

The paper takes a look at the history of the idea of universal grammar and compares it to multilingual grammars, as formalized in the Grammatical Framework, GF. Résumé. L’article jette un coup d’oeil sur l’histoire de l’idée d’une grammaire universelle et fait ensuite une comparaison avec les grammaires multilingues, telles que formalisées dans GF, “Grammatical Framework”.

Nature, Nurture and Universal Grammar

In just a few years, children achieve a stable state of linguistic competence, making them effectively adults with respect to: understanding novel sentences, discerning relations of paraphrase and entailment, acceptability judgments, etc. One familiar account of the language acquisition process treats it as an induction problem of the sort that arises in any domain where the knowledge achieved ...

Revisiting Universal Grammar 1

Universal Higher Order Grammar

We examine the class of languages that can be defined entirely in terms of provability in an extension of the sorted type theory (Tyn) by embedding the logic of phonologies, without introduction of special types for syntactic entities. This class is proven to precisely coincide with the class of logically closed languages that may be thought of as functions from expressions to sets of logically...