Considerable empirical evidence indicates that perceivers construct a grammatical
representation of sentences during comprehension. The principles underlying constituent …

Unlike our primate cousins, many species of bird share with humans a capacity for vocal
learning, a crucial factor in speech acquisition. There are striking behavioural, neural and …

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 …

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 …

Time underlies many interesting human behaviors. Thus, the question of how to represent
time in connectionist models is very important. One approach is to represent time implicitly …

The study of language has a long and rich history, extending over thousands of years. This
study has frequently been understood as an inquiry into the nature of mind and thought on …

This important volume examines the phenomena of cognition from an adaptive perspective.
Rather than adhering to the typical practice in cognitive psychology of trying to predict …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be
explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

My goal in writing this book has been to convey the principles and issues of
psycholinguistics in a straightforward and accessible manner. The field, although principally …