Dependency distance, measured by the linear distance between two syntactically related
words in a sentence, is generally held as an important index of memory burden and an …

This article revisits earlier proposals that language learning is, in essence, the learning of
formulaic sequences and their interpretations; that this occurs at all levels of granularity from …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Language has a fundamentally social function. Processes of human interaction along with
domain‐general cognitive processes shape the structure and knowledge of language …

In this paper we examine the neurobiological correlates of syntax, the processing of
structured sequences, by comparing FMRI results on artificial and natural language syntax …

In the generative tradition, the language faculty has been shrinking—perhaps to include only
the mechanism of recursion. This paper argues that even this view of the language faculty is …

Construction grammar, or constructionist approaches more generally, emphasize the
function of particular constructions as well as their formal properties. Constructions vary in …

Studies of language change have begun to contribute to answering several pressing
questions in cognitive sciences, including the origins of human language capacity, the social …

This article briefly reviews some recent work on artificial language learning in children and
adults. The final part of the article is devoted to a theoretical formulation of the language …