نتایج جستجو برای: language universals

تعداد نتایج: 432199  

2008
Florencia Reali Morten H. Christiansen

There is considerable variation across the languages of the world, nonetheless it is possible to discern common patterns in how languages are structured and used. The underlying source of this variation as well as the nature of crosslinguistic universals is the focus of much debate across different areas of linguistics. Some linguists suggest that language universals derive from the inner worki...

Journal: :Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2008

Journal: :Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2014
David Maximiliano Gómez Iris Berent Silvia Benavides-Varela Ricardo A H Bion Luigi Cattarossi Marina Nespor Jacques Mehler

The evolution of human languages is driven both by primitive biases present in the human sensorimotor systems and by cultural transmission among speakers. However, whether the design of the language faculty is further shaped by linguistic biological biases remains controversial. To address this question, we used near-infrared spectroscopy to examine whether the brain activity of neonates is sen...

2010
Jeffrey Lidz

This paper explores the role of learning in generative grammar, highlighting interactions between distributional patterns in the environment and the innate structure of the language faculty. Reviewing three case studies, it is shown how learners use their language faculties to leverage the environment, making inferences from distributions to grammars that would not be licensed in the absence of...

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