Prosodic Constraints on Children's Variable Production of Grammatical Morphemes by Katherine Demuth (Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia) Language acquisition researchers have long observed that children's early use of grammatical morphemes is highly variable. It is generally thought that this is due to incomplete syntactic or semantic representations. However, recent crosslinguistic research has found that […]

Synergie in Language Acquisition by Mark Johnson (Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia) Each human language contains an unbounded number of different sentences. How can something so large and complex possibly be learnt? Over the past decade and a half we've learned how to define probability distributions over grammars and the linguistic structures they generate, […]