Infants are prepared by biology to acquire language, but it is the native language (s) they
must learn. Over the first weeks and months of life, infants learn about the sounds and sights …

Abstract Language acquisition involves both acquiring a set of words (ie the lexicon) and
learning the rules that combine them to form sentences (ie syntax). Here, we show that …

Within language, systematic correlations exist between syntactic structure and prosody.
Prosodic prominence, for instance, falls on the complement and not the head of syntactic …

Duration‐based auditory grou** preferences are presumably shaped by language
experience in adults and infants, unlike intensity‐based grou** that is governed by a …

Languages are often categorized as having either predictable (fixed or quantity-sensitive) or
non-predictable stress. Despite their name, fixed stress languages may have exceptions, so …

One universal feature of human languages is the division between grammatical functors and
content words. From a learnability point of view, functors might provide entry points or …

Acquiring language requires learning a set of words (ie the lexicon) and abstract rules that
combine them to form sentences (ie syntax). In this thesis, we show that infants acquiring …

In recent research (Boeckx and Benítez-Burraco,,) have advanced the hypothesis that our
species-specific language-ready brain should be understood as the outcome of …

This paper looks into the possibility that the rhythm present in poetry is the same that
characterizes natural languages. This hypothesis, although attractive, faces serious …

This paper argues for the significance of linear information in the computational component.
In the grammatical model adopted here, syntactic and prosodic derivations proceed in …