A central goal of modern generative grammar has been to discover invariant properties of
human languages that reflect “the innate schematism of mind that is applied to the data of …

Human infants develop language remarkably rapidly and without overt instruction. We argue
that the distinctive ontogenesis of child language arises from the interplay of three factors …

The chapter collected here represent some of the work carried out in the period 2002-2007
by the group working on the project “Null Subjects and the Structure of Parametric Theory” …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.
All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a …

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 …

Understanding how people learn and fail to learn second and foreign languages is
increasingly recognised as a critical social and psycholinguistic issue. Second languages …

" Bilingualism in Development explores language and cognitive development in bilingual
children, focusing on the preschool years. It begins by defining what we mean by …

The linguistic data to which children are exposed appear to be insufficient to determine, by
themselves, the linguistic knowledge which children eventually attain. The gap between …

If we will observe how children learn languages, we will find that, to make them understand
what the names of simple ideas or substances stand for, people ordinarily show them the …