Biology uses generative systems. Genomes consist of an alphabet of four nucleotides, which, together with certain rules for how to produce proteins and organize cells, generates an unlimited variety ...

Second language acquisition (SLA) of aspect and tense occupies a central role in applied linguistics, as it elucidates how learners come to express temporal distinctions in a non-native tongue. This ...

The 'myth' of language history: languages do not share a single history but different components evolve along different trajectories and at different rates. A large-scale study of Pacific languages ...

Syntactic persistence is the tendency for speakers to produce sentences using similar grammatical patterns and rules of language as those they have used before. Although the way this occurs is not ...

There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every month for the next 40 years. A study ...

Given the global influence of the English language and its extensive international use, many native speakers may have a preconceived notion about the structure of languages. Especially when ...

“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” – Robert Frost, American Poet Psychologists have long been interested in how language can affect human thought. If ...

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Workshop 3: Does knowledge of language use affect the way we express emotions? Click here to join online. What do humans know when they use language? One of the core goals of the generative enterprise ...