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People constantly use concepts and word meaning to recognize entities and objects in their environment, to anticipate how entities will behave and interact with one another, to know how objects should be used, and to understand language. Read More about "The Cognitive Science of Language Lecture Series"
It has been noted that adverbial clauses can precede or follow the main clause with which they are associated and that there are crosslinguistic tendencies that account for ordering preferences in given languages. Read More about "The Cognitive Science of Language Lecture Series"
Syntactic theories are often evaluated using something like Occam's razor - we syntacticians typically prefer the theory with the smallest set of grammatical operations. Read More about "The Cognitive Science of Language Lecture Series"
The presentation will begin by describing an overall model that synthesizes the contextual and intraindividual factors that contribute to L2 learning and then shift to the ubiquitous topic of cross-linguistic transfer. Read More about "The Cognitive Science of Language Lecture Series"
