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 ...

In her The Acquisition of Syntax in Children from 5 to 10, Carol Chomsky observed that certain syntactic constructions such as subject control with promise type verbs are acquired surprisingly late. She argued that initially children strictly adhere to Rosenbaum’s 1967 Minimal Distance Principle, barring subject control, and exceptions to the principle are acquired at later points in developmen...

Noam Chomsky argues that only a meager percentage of the world, consisting of mainly large corporations and developed nations, prosper from globalization. As stated in Immanuel Wallerstein’s World-System Theory, the modern system of the world, which is constructed according to the economic status of nations, can be divided into three levels: the core, the semi-periphery, and the periphery. Whil...

Speaking as someone who has personally felt the influence of the “Chomskian Turn”, I believe that one of Chomsky’s most significant contributions to Psychology, or as it is now called, Cognitive Science was to bring back scientific realism. This may strike you as a very odd claim, for one does not usually think of science as needing to be talked into scientific realism. Science is, after all, t...