Controversy surrounds the suggestion that recursion is a uniquely human computational ability that enables language. A study now finds this ability in a songbird and takes steps toward a model system ...

Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 29, No. 1, Special Issue: The Relationship of Language and Behavior (November 2003), pp. 34-42 (9 pages) This study was designed to explore a model of communicative ...

Language acquisition in early childhood represents a fundamental aspect of human cognitive development, where children rapidly transform acoustic signals into a rich, structured linguistic system.

Workshop 1: How do children acquire knowledge of language use? Click here to join online. What do humans know when they use language? One of the core goals of the generative enterprise (and other ...