Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With

Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With

Throughout much of the history of linguistics, grammaticality judgments - intuitions about the well-formedness of sentences - have constituted most of the empir

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, br

The mental representation of language cannot be directly observed but must be inferred and modelled from its effects at second hand. Linguists have traditionall