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Language module
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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
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Cognitive science
McGurk effect
Modularity of mind
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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Heritage languages and their speakers: Opportunities and challenges for linguistics
E. Benmamoun
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S. Montrul
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M. Polinsky
2013
Corpus ID: 54541144
Abstract In this paper, we bring to the attention of the linguistic community recent research on heritage languages. Shifting…
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Three Factors in Language Design
Noam Chomsky
Linguistic Inquiry
2005
Corpus ID: 14954986
The biolinguistic perspective regards the language faculty as an organ of the body, along with other cognitive systems. Adopting…
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Review
2005
Review
2005
Bilingualism, Heritage Language Learners, and SLA Research: Opportunities Lost or Seized?
Guadalupe Valdés
2005
Corpus ID: 52993855
In this article I invite a reconceptualization and expansion of the field of second language acquisition (SLA) by examining…
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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…
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Consequences of Antisymmetry: Headed Relative Clauses
V. Bianchi
1999
Corpus ID: 61087069
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century…
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
The empirical base of linguistics: Grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology
Carson T. Schütze
1998
Corpus ID: 141069514
Preface Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Definitions and Historical Background 3: Judging Grammaticality: The Nature of…
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1997
Highly Cited
1997
Thematic Roles and Syntactic Structure
M. Baker
1997
Corpus ID: 15920971
One central task for any theory of grammar is to solve the so-called “linking problem”: the problem of discovering regularities…
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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…
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1981
Highly Cited
1981
Issues in Italian Syntax
L. Rizzi
1981
Corpus ID: 62731517
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century…
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1938
Highly Cited
1938
Reading, Writing and Speech Problems in Children
S. T. Orton
Nature
1938
Corpus ID: 4126600
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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