What exactly is Universal Grammar, and has anyone seen it?

What exactly is Universal Grammar, and has anyone seen it?

Universal Grammar (UG) is a suspect concept. There is little agreement on what exactly is in it; and the empirical evidence for it is very weak. This paper critically examines a variety of arguments that have been put forward as evidence for UG, focussing on the three most powerful ones: universality (all human languages share a number of properties), convergence (all language learners converge...

Global Burden of Double Malnutrition: Has Anyone Seen It?

BACKGROUND Low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) are believed to be characterized by the coexistence of underweight and overweight. It has also been posited that such coexistence is appearing among the low socioeconomic status (SES) groups. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative samples of 451,321 women aged 20-49 years drawn from 57 Demographic and Hea...

Universal Grammar is a universal grammar

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health communication what it is and what is not

What Exactly Is Software?

Unlike oil, steel or paper, software is an intangible commodity. This elusive quality makes computer programs difficult to quantify Modern society has become increasingly reliant on software—and thankfully so. Computer programs routinely execute operations that would be extraordinarily laborious for an unaided person—handling payrolls, recording bank transactions, shuffling airline reservations...