Language learners encounter numerous opportunities to learn regularities, but need to decide which of these regularities to learn, because some are not productive in their native language. Here, we present an account of rule learning based on perceptual and memory primitives (Endress, Dehaene-Lambertz, & Mehler, Cognition, 105(3), 577-614, 2007; Endress, Nespor, & Mehler, Trends in Cognitive Sc...

Lexicon and specific anthropological linguistics reveal the cultural description of Gorontalo people in gara'i through lingual codes. The method used is descriptive qualitative, namely all research data form words, phrases, clauses, sentences. results discussion found: (a) out 30 gara`i there are 16 noun lexicons, 20 verbs containing information constructed by morphophonemic processes omission,...

We present a theory of grammar based on asymmetrical relations, the Strict Asymmetry Theory, and we provide evidence form Indo-European and non Indo-European languages to show that argument structure restrictions on morphological composition follow in a principled way from the theory. We describe and implement a bottom-up parser for morphological selection in the Strict Asymmetry framework. Cor...