This paper proposes an analysis of statements about universals according to which such assert nothing more than that the evidence we’d take confirm them obtains, where this is understood consist solely patterns in behavior particulars cannot be explained by other regularities way things behave. On analysis, say a universal exists simply there pattern certain particulars, and for any predicate F...

Elbers* does an excellent job of integrating, analyzing, and extending recent theoretical and empirical work concerning the relation of learning and development. The purpose of this commentary is to challenge Elbers to address the difficult question of universal sequences in human development. In order to focus the issue, a specific sequence in the development of logical reasoning is proposed.

the common belief among a great number of linguists and psycholinguists is that the solution to the problem of language acquisition, also called the projection problem or plato’s problem, lies within the prior knowledge. one hypothesis that constitutes the foundation of this belief is that the gap between the child-exposed input (primary data) and the linguistic system (linguistic competence) i...

Abstract We describe two mathematical representations for what have come to be called “semantic maps”, that is, of typological universals linguistic co-expression with the aim inferring similarity relations between concepts from those universals. The are a graph structure and Euclidean space, latter as inferred through multidimensional scaling. Graph in types. In both types, meanings represente...