Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

Cognitive science aims to reverse-engineer the mind, and many of the engineering
challenges the mind faces involve induction. The probabilistic approach to modeling …

Modern machine learning has subverted and bypassed the theoretical framework of
Chomsky's generative approach to linguistics, including its core claims to particular insights …

Ming Li Paul Vitányi Fourth Edition Page 1 An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its
Applications Ming Li Paul Vitányi Fourth Edition Texts in Computer Science Page 2 Texts in …

Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are
all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the …

It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are
intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

This paper draws attention to a powerful human motive that has not yet been incorporated
into economics: the desire to make sense of our immediate experience, our life, and our …

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 …

Children acquiring language infer the correct form of syntactic constructions for which they
appear to have little or no direct evidence, avoiding simple but incorrect generalizations that …