The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the
study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a …

Neural correlates exist for a basic component of logical formulae, PREDICATE (x). Vision
and audition research in primates and humans shows two independent neural pathways; …

Language acquisition represents one of the great learning achievements in human cognitive
development. Perhaps, this process takes place in a relatively automatic manner in which …

The interactive-alignment model of dialogue provides an account of dialogue at the level of
explanation normally associated with cognitive psychology. We develop our claim that …

One of the functions of everyday human language is to communicate meaning. Thus, when
one hears or reads the sentence,“John gave a book to Mary,” some aspect of an event …

One of the principal functions of human language is to allow people to coordinate joint
action. This includes the description of events, requests for action, and their organization in …

This chapter shows a concrete example of a language game experiment for studying the
cultural evolution of one of the most basic functions of language, namely to draw attention to …

One of the most paradoxical aspects of human language is that it is so unlike any other form
of behavior in the animal world, yet at the same time, it has developed in a species that is not …

The current research presents a system that learns to understand object names, spatial
relation terms and event descriptions from observing narrated action sequences. The system …