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 …

This paper provides an overview of what we take to be the key current issues in the field of
Generative Grammar, the study of the human Faculty of Language. We discuss some of the …

Rapid progress in machine learning for natural language processing has the potential to
transform debates about how humans learn language. However, the learning environments …

During the past ten years, research using Near-infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to study the
developing brain has provided groundbreaking evidence of brain functions in infants. This …

A classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating
and developing the minimalist program. In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program …

The biolinguistic perspective regards the language faculty as an “organ of the body,” along
with other cognitive systems. Adopting it, we expect to find three factors that interact to …

This is an introduction to the structure of sentences in human languages. It assumes no prior
knowledge of linguistic theory and little of elementary grammar. It will suit students coming to …

Over the last decades, a considerable body of evidence has accumulated that speakers
have detailed phonetic knowledge of a type which is not readily modelled using the …

Since the earliest days of generative grammar, control has been distinguished from raising:
the latter the product of movement operations, the former the result of construal processes …

Fragmentary utterances such as 'short'answers and subsentential XPs without linguistic
antecedents are proposed to have fully sentential syntactic structures, subject to ellipsis …