Specific Language Impairment (SLI) has been explained by two broad classes of
hypotheses, which posit either a deficit specific to grammar, or a non-linguistic processing …

Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words. A vigorous ongoing debate
surrounds the question of how such internal structure is best accounted for: by means of …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

A defense of the computational explanation of cognition that relies on mechanistic
philosophy of science and advocates for explanatory pluralism. In this book, Marcin …

While this is the oldest and most widely known of the distinctions we are discussing in this
chapter, having been formulated by Chomsky (1965, p. 4), and having been the subject of …

This book reviews interdisciplinary work on the mental processing of syntax and
morphology. It focuses on the fundamental questions at the centre of this research, for …

It is widely believed that the difference between regular and irregular verbs is restricted to
form. This study questions that belief. We report a series of lexical statistics showing that …

The authors compared performance on two variants of the primed lexical decision task to
investigate morphological processing in native and non-native speakers of English. They …

This chapter shows that the pocket calculator provides a fundamentally flawed metaphor for
understanding morphological structure and processing in the mental lexicon. To this end, it …

This review investigates empirical evidence for different theoretical proposals regarding the
retreat from overgeneralization errors in three domains: word learning (eg,* doggie to refer …