Entangled Parametric Hierarchies: Problems for an Overspecified Universal Grammar

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Boeckx, Cedric ^a,b   Leivada, Evelina ^b  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GRAMMAR; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; OVERSIMPLIFIED UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR; PARAMETRIC HIERARCHY; PARAMETRIC TEST;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84883364025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072357     Document Type: Article

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