The last 40 years have witnessed a growing interest in the mechanisms underlying the
visual identification of complex words. A large amount of experimental data has been …

Human infants develop language remarkably rapidly and without overt instruction. We argue
that the distinctive ontogenesis of child language arises from the interplay of three factors …

This book develops a theory of the morpheme in the framework of Distributed Morphology.
Particular emphasis is devoted to the way in which functional morphemes receive their …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

The generative enterprise in linguistics is roughly 50 years old, and it is reasonable to ask
what progress the field has made in certain areas over the past five decades. This article will …

There is considerable behavioral evidence that morphologically complex words such as 'tax-
able'and 'kiss-es' are processed and represented combinatorially. In other words, they are …

The present work proposes a computational model of morpheme combination at the
meaning level. The model moves from the tenets of distributional semantics, and assumes …

Can advances in NLP help advance cognitive modeling? We examine the role of artificial
neural networks, the current state of the art in many common NLP tasks, by returning to a …

We outline what an integrated approach to language research that connects experimental,
theoretical and neurobiological (NB) domains of inquiry would look like and ask to what …

A psycholinguistic account of human communication must explain how linguistic inputs and
outputs are structured to convey the speaker's intended meaning. The concept of a “mental …