The simpler syntax hypothesis

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 413-418

  Culicover, Peter W ^a   Jackendoff, Ray ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL APPLICATIONS; LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTIC THEORY;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; SEMANTICS;

SYNTACTICS;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; GRAMMAR; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; SCIENCE; SEMANTICS; THEORY;

COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; THINKING;

EID: 33747882320     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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