Further, language is used by humans in ways no animal can match; if you understand what language is, you comprehend a little bit more about human nature. Chomsky’s first version of his theory, put ...

Giosuè Baggio is in the Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim NO-7491, Norway. Binz et al. explore horizontal integration ...

Vol. 12, No. 4, Special Issue on GENERAL NATIVISM AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (October 1996), pp. 335-373 (39 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Ltd. This article is about nativist theories ...

Over the past several years, there has been an increased research output in the field of language acquisition and its effects on the brain. This is especially true with regards to the effects of ...

Behaviorism was born from research done by Ivan Pavlov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pavlov’s research into animal digestion led to the recognition that the animals that were being ...

Alex Mangold received funding from the British Academy for the research mentioned in this article (Talent Development Award 2021). Sarah Pogoda received funding from the British Academy for the ...

In earlier parenting days, my family often passed car-ride time by playing One-Word Story. Each passenger sequentially contributed a single word to an evolving story. While the Pulitzer committee has ...