Linguists and psychologists have long been studying cross-linguistic transfer, the influence of native language properties on linguistic performance in a foreign language. In this work we provide empirical evidence for this process in the form of a strong correlation between language similarities derived from structural features in English as Second Language (ESL) texts and equivalent similarit...

Introduction. One of the most contested debates in phonology concerns identifying factors that affect typology. The Analytic Bias approach (AB) claims that biases in learning affect the typology, while the Channel Bias approach (CB) assumes phonetic precursors and transmission of language affect the typology (Moreton 2008). Empirical evidence in favor of both hypotheses exists: processes that a...

In the Government-based literature, all structural principles supplied by UG are, without exception, assumed to exert their influence over every well-formed representation. We do find cases, however, where two principles that appear to be universally applicable make opposing predictions as to the grammaticality of a given structure. To resolve such instances of principle clash, I propose a loca...

Purpose – The paper seeks to investigate the changing and challenging spatial nature of the rising knowledge cities’ knowledge precincts. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews the literature on recent knowledge precinct developments within the frame of innovation and urban economic competitiveness. The methodology develops a typological investigation and searches for useful insights f...

One of the most contested debates in phonology concerns identifying factors that affect typology. Two lines of thought emerge in this discussion: Analytic Bias (AB) and Channel Bias (CB) approach (Moreton, 2008). The AB approach claims that cognitive biases in learning influence the typology, while the CB approach assumes phonetic precursors and transmission of language affect the typology (Mor...

1. DEFINING A LINGUISTIC AREA IN “CENTRAL/EASTERN INDONESIA.” In her Rejoinder to Malcolm Ross’s squib, Klamer (2003) addresses Ross’s critique of her 2002 article, Typical features of Austronesian languages in Central/Eastern Indonesia, stating that, rather than attempting to present a rubric for evaluating genetic relatedness, the article was intended to describe a set of grammatical features...