This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 30 4-5-year-old children copied a horizontal line, a vertical line, and an inverted T. Preference for a certain strategy in copying the ...

We start this page with the hypothesis that the lexicon is initially underspecified: that some features may be NIL (not specified as either plus or minus). A NIL feature is represented either with no ...

Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 54, No. 4 (November 2018), pp. 823-858 (36 pages) This paper explores the interaction of regularity and idiosyncracy in the formation of nominals. It treats both nominals ...

Introduction -- Nonconfigurationality and polysynthesis -- The clausal spin -- Making mirrors -- Interface properties of clausal domains -- Anti-quantification and the syntax-semantics interface -- ...

Monkeys can understand the simple rules of grammar but the key element of all human languages is beyond them, a study at Harvard University has shown. The research with cotton-top tamarins shows they ...