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Language module

Known as: Language faculty 
Language module refers to a hypothesized structure in the human brain (anatomical module) or cognitive system (functional module) that some… 
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Cognitive architecture
Cognitive moduleCognitive scienceMcGurk effectModularity of mind

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Heritage languages and their speakers: Opportunities and challenges for linguistics
Abstract In this paper, we bring to the attention of the linguistic community recent research on heritage languages. Shifting… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Three Factors in Language Design
The biolinguistic perspective regards the language faculty as an organ of the body, along with other cognitive systems. Adopting… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Bilingualism, Heritage Language Learners, and SLA Research: Opportunities Lost or Seized?
In this article I invite a reconceptualization and expansion of the field of second language acquisition (SLA) by examining… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
The syntactic process
  • Mark Steedman
  • Language, speech, and communication
  • 2004
  • Corpus ID: 58263328
In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Consequences of Antisymmetry: Headed Relative Clauses
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
The empirical base of linguistics: Grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology
Preface Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Definitions and Historical Background 3: Judging Grammaticality: The Nature of… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Thematic Roles and Syntactic Structure
One central task for any theory of grammar is to solve the so-called “linking problem”: the problem of discovering regularities… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
Maturational Constraints on Language Learning
  • E. Newport
  • Cognitive Sciences
  • 1990
  • Corpus ID: 207056257
This paper suggests that there are constraints on learning required to explain the acquisition of language, in particular, mului… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Issues in Italian Syntax
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century… 
Highly Cited
1938
Highly Cited
1938
Reading, Writing and Speech Problems in Children
THIS book contains the third of the Thomas W. Salmon Memorial Lectures. The writer gives an account of his well-known work on… 
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