This study investigated whether formal complexity, as described by the Chomsky Hierarchy, corresponds to cognitive complexity during language learning. According to the Chomsky Hierarchy, nested dependencies (context-free) are less complex than cross-serial dependencies (mildly context-sensitive). In two artificial grammar learning (AGL) experiments participants were presented with a language c...

As Piaget consistently acknowledges, all learning is an active process. Reading, then, is an activity, a proecess of confrontation between an individual and a text (3). For both Piaget and Chomsky, language is highly strcutured. In Chomsky’s terms, there is a linguistic relationship between the surface structure and the phonological aspects of language. DEVELOPING A PHILOSOPHY OF READING: PIAGE...

O tema da variação linguística, correspondendo à paramétrica na sintaxe, não tem sido explorado de modo compreensivo abordagem minimalista (veja-se, no entanto, ROBERTS, 2019 e as referência lá citadas). Duas visões centrais parcialmente distintas linguística nesse arcabouço são: (i) a se origina léxico (a chamada conjectura Borer-Chomsky, cf. BAKER, 2008) (ii) reside externalização Berwick-Cho...

An important concern in language acquisition research is that behavior on a given task can be indicative both of children’s underlying knowledge and of their ability to deploy that knowledge. Therefore, to accurately uncover the nature of children’s grammatical knowledge, it is necessary to take into account variability in deployment processes. In this study, we will use children’s acquisition ...