Phonology – the systematic organisation of sounds in language – plays a critical role in language acquisition, reflecting the interplay between innate predispositions and environmental input. Research ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the markedness model of SPE (Chomsky & Halle 1968), redundancy rules lose their ability to characterize regularities and must convert ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Automatic alternations, those traditionally understood to be required by phonetic structure, have not been a part of transformational ...

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder is a major center of interdisciplinary research in cognitive-functional linguistics, computational linguistics, language ...

We learn about how and why languages change. Language is constantly changing. Today’s small changes could lead to entirely new dialects or languages in the future. We learn about how and why languages ...