In view of inconsistent findings regarding bilingual advantages in executive functions (EF), we reviewed the literature to determine whether bilinguals' different language usage causes measureable changes in the shifting aspects of EF. By drawing on the theoretical framework of the adaptive control hypothesis-which postulates a critical link between bilinguals' varying demands on language contr...

This paper is in line with the principles of numerical taxonomy and with the program of holistic typology. It integrates the level of phonology with the morphological and syntactical level by correlating metric properties (such as n of phonemes per syllable and n of syllables per clause) with non-metric variables such as the number of morphological cases and adposition order. The study of cross...

The cross-linguistic study of morphological structure has a long and rich tradition that is connected to the very beginnings of language typology. Proposals going back to the end of the 18 and start of the 19 century (cf. e.g. Ramat 2010, 16-17, Plank 2001) have survived remarkably well into modern-day typology (see e.g. Aikhenvald 2007 for a modern version), which can be seen as a tribute to q...

The work we present may be considered as the consolidation of a methodology that was already outlined in the paper presented in the second M&D congress held in San Sebastian (1998). We establish that, in architectural design, the computer is only used in the last step in order to achieve the traditional Euclidean design in a more precise and comfortable way and to improve the quality of the han...

With the rise of the Web as an important medium for displaying and curating typological data, the next generation of linguists will have access to thousands of data sets on many of the world’s remaining languages. It is not out of the question that many or most of the grammars ever published and possibly many sets of field notes will be digitised and stored in a Web accessible format (cf. Googl...

1 The problem: learnability of underlying structure All the various grammatical characteristics of adult grammar will eventually appear in child language. They will do so successively, and reveal a learnability hierarchy that holds for all primary learners of the language. As a matter of fact Brown (1973:313ff) showed how 13 grammatical morphemes of English obey such an order of appearance. Wha...

Abstract This paper proposes a typology of compositionality as manifest in human language and animal communication. At the heart is distinction between bare compositionality, which meaning complex expression determined solely by meanings its constituents, constructional constituents also various aspects structure. Bare may be observed well communication systems, including primates birds. Archit...