We study nonlinear connectives (exponentials) in the context of Type Logical Grammar (TLG). We devise four conservative extensions of the displacement calculus with brackets, Db!, Db!?, Db!b and Db!b?r which contain the universal and existential exponential modalities of linear logic (LL). These modalities do not exhibit the same structural properties as in LL, which in TLG are especially adapt...

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”.

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 ...

Recent demonstrations of statistical learning in infants have reinvigorated the innateness versus learning debate in language acquisition. This article addresses these issues from both computational and developmental perspectives. First, I argue that statistical learning using transitional probabilities cannot reliably segment words when scaled to a realistic setting (e.g. child-directed Englis...

the present study was an attempt to investigate the acquisition of negationproperties by persian monolingual and kurdish-persian bilingual learners of englishacross different levels of language proficiency and within a generative framework.generative models are generally concerned with issues such as universal grammar(ug), language transfer, and morphological variability in nonprimary languaged...

Reading has universal properties that can be seen across the world’s writing systems. The most important one is the universal language constraint: All writing systems represent spoken languages, a universal with consequences for reading processes. These consequences are seen most clearly at the broad principle level: the principle that reading universally requires the reader to make links to la...

One important issue in current language acquisition research is whether the of a second fundamentally different from that first language. Researchers approaching (SLA) linguistic perspective often relate this to availability Universal Grammar acquisition. The main focus paper examine role and what extent it plays process. To illustrate this, four access hypotheses or theories were given.
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Sentential adverbs are often assumed to be situated in front of the verb phrase in arbitrary order. In a recent monograph, however, Cinque (1999) claims that the relative order of sentential adverbs may, in principle, be universally fixed. In this paper I first give a brief presentation of Cinque’s proposal. Then I present a pilot study of sentential adverbs in English and Swedish. This study i...