By analyzing a global sample of 1,314 languages, they found that speech community size and the proportion of second-language speakers were not associated with simpler grammars.

Welcome to the Descriptive Grammars and Typology conference Over the last few decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the production of descriptive grammars for languages that had previously ...

The participants were trained with both types of grammars two days before the scanning session. One group learned "local probability", the other "hierarchy".

In “Founding Grammars,” Rosemarie Ostler traces the history of word usage in America, how our language has changed and what it says about our class and our origins.

A grammatical pattern called recursion, once proposed as unique to human language, turns out to fall within the learning abilities of starlings.

The advantage of experimenting with artificial grammars - as opposed to naturally spoken grammars - lies in the fact that other elements of language (semantics, phonology, morphology) do not have ...