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Quantitative methods in syntax/ semantics research: A response to Sprouse and Almeida (2012) Edward Gibson a b , Steven T. Piantadosi c & Evelina Fedorenko a a Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA b Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA c Brain and Cognitive Sciences Depar...

Two characteristics of cognitive science are central and obvious. First, it is cognitive, aiming toward empirical and theoretical understanding of cognition. Its founding disciplines addressed intelligence in humans (cognitive psychology) and computers (artificial intelligence), with special scrutiny given to language as a paradigmatic domain of human competence (linguistics). Over time, the un...

Markedness is one of the analytical principles of linguistics; it indicates the existence of asymmetric relationship inside the language category, and this concept is widely used in phonology, semantics, syntax analysis, sentence structures, pragmatics and applied linguistics. Therefore, the markedness is quite valuable to the analysis of languages. Prototype category theory is an important the...

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The study of polysemy has a venerable tradition in Cognitive Linguistics. Since the pioneering of work of Dirven ( 98 ), Radden ( 98 ), Brugman ( 983), Lindner ( 983), and Vandeloise ( 984), the Lexical Network approach to spatial prepositions has proved to be one of the most important contributions of the cognitive paradigm. However, at both a theoretical and methodological level, this network...

Methodological questions concerning Chomsky’s generative approach to linguistics have been debated without consensus. The status of linguistics as psychology, the psychological reality of grammars, the character of tacit knowledge and the role of intuitions as data remain heatedly disputed today. I argue that the recalcitrance of these disputes is symptomatic of deep misunderstandings. I focus ...

Let us begin this chapter by asking what constitutes an explanation in linguistics and in the field of language development. Since Chomsky’s seminal work in generative grammar (Chomsky 1957, 1965), the research program of lingusitic theory has been set towards circumscribing the set of possible human languages. In an idealization of this program, one must first construct a set of phenomenologic...