This study focusses on the emergence and preservation of linguistic generalizations in a community. Generalizations originate in the innate capacities of individuals for language acquisition and invention. The cycle of language transmission through individual competences (I-languages) and public

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rate to schoolchildren. LSA uses no prior linguistic or perceptual similarity knowledge; it is based solely on a general mathematical learning method that achieves powerful inductive effects by extracting the right number of dimensions (e.g., 300) to represent objects and contexts. Relations to other

In this article we show how Optimality Theory yields a highly general Constraint Demotion principle for grammar learning. The resulting learning procedure specifically exploits the grammatical structure of Optimality Theory, independent of the content of substantive constraints defining any given

The mechanism that allows learners to generalize over linguistic input and its rela-tion to constraints on possible generalizations was explored in three experiments. Infants were familiarized briefly with words exhibiting stress patterns generated by a set of ordered principles, and then tested

distinctive content to such a field in either of these two domains. In phonology, the discovery was made that when we extend the scope of rule governed generalizations beyond the particular limits imposed (as in classical phonemic theory) by surface contrast, the effect is to increase the range of cases

This course is an introduction to computerized research methods, which are applied to large data bases of language used in natural communicative settings to supplement more traditional ways of linguistic analysis in all linguistic sub‐disciplines. COURSE CREDIT REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING • Your final

For individuals who speak more than one language, aphasia following left-hemisphere stroke or focal brain injury impacts all of their languages to varying degrees. At this time, there is limited research regarding the most effective form of treatment for bilingual aphasia, specifically whether to target one or all languages. Some research has suggested that treating individuals with bilingual aphasia in their non-dominant language (L2) yields positive results in

, linguistic expressions (constructions) are taken to reflect both very high-level, abstract generalizations (elegant rules), as well as low-level generalizations, and even idiosyncratic phenomena. These analyses, moreover, are not mutually exclusive, so the same linguistic string may receive

Does the productive use of language stem from the manipulation of mental variables (e.g. "noun", "any consonant")? If linguistic constraints appeal to variables, rather than instances (e.g. "dog", "m"), then they should generalize to any representable novel