Constraints on structure: Evidence from American Sign Language and language learning

EL Newport - Aspects of the development of competence, 2015 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Language (ASL) permits a kind of natural analysis of variance, since it differs from spoken
language … for language structure (cf. Friedman, 1977; Klima, Bellugi, et al., 1979; Siple, 1978). …

Language and equality: Ideological and structural constraints in foreign language education in the US

L Ortega - Sociopolitical perspectives on language policy and …, 1999 - torrossa.com
… of broader societal values regarding language and education in the practices and attitudes
of FL teachers, I believe structural and institutional constraints within the FL profession are …

Phonology and children with specific language impairment: Status of structural constraints in two languages

U Bortolini, LB Leonard - Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000 - Elsevier
… grammatical morpheme use and the structural constraints. To assess the two group's
phonological abilities independent of the above structural constraints, we examined each child's …

[PDF][PDF] A computational account of some constraints on language

M Marcus - American Journal of Computational Linguistics, 1978 - aclanthology.org
… Subject Constraint, fall out naturally from the structure of a gramnlar interpreter called
PARSIFAL, wliose structure is in tiirn based upon the hypothesis tliat a natural language parser …

Early emergence of structural constraints on code-mixing: Evidence from French–English bilingual children

J Paradis, E Nicoladis, F Genesee - Bilingualism: language and …, 2000 - cambridge.org
language-specific properties of INFL in French and English in order to adhere to the MLF
model's constraints. In so doing, we expect to show whether sensitivity to structural constraints

Constraints on statistical language learning

JR Saffran - Journal of Memory and Language, 2002 - Elsevier
… One of the languages used in this study was a small phrase structure grammar (Language
P, for predictive), in which dependencies between word categories afforded predictive cues to …

Surface structure constraints in syntax

DM Perlmutter - Linguistic inquiry, 1970 - JSTOR
… It entails that in any language with a surface structure constraint on the relative order of clitics,
the clitics are strictly ordered. That is, the relation "may precede," defined on slots of charts …

Constraints on language development

MS Thomas - Developmental theory and language disorders, 2005 - books.google.com
… differentiated language structure in the adult will therefore need to incorporate interactivity,
compensation, and timing, whether the early infant system is strongly or weakly constrained. …

Social and structural constraints in lectal cohesion

L Oushiro - Lingua, 2016 - Elsevier
… –, with the objective of identifying social and structural constraints that promote co-variation. …
them and tease apart the effect of language-internal and social constraints in co-variability. …

Structure and content in language production: A theory of frame constraints in phonological speech errors

GS Dell, C Juliano, A Govindjee - Cognitive Science, 1993 - Elsevier
… More generally, we suggest that the role of the structure-content distinction in theories of
language production needs to be reexamined in the light of PDP accounts of memory storage …