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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… Expand
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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… Expand
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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… Expand
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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… Expand
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals
1. A Puzzle of Fit 2. The Impact of Processing on Word Order 3. Hierarchies and Competing Motivations 4. The Limits of Functional… Expand
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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… Expand
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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… Expand
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
English relative clause constructions
This paper sketches a grammar of English relative clause constructions (including infinitival and reduced relatives) based on… Expand
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Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Second Language Acquisition
Preface Part I. The Process of Language Acquisition: 1. Some forms of language acquisition, some fundamental facts, some focal… Expand
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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… Expand
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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… Expand
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