Vol. 70, No. 2, Selected papers from the workshop Consequences of the OV-to-VO change on different levels of clause structure of the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, ...

A new paper by an international team of researchers presents strong evidence that language is learned using two general-purpose brain systems (declarative memory and procedural memory) that are ...

Is making a sentence like riding a bicycle? A neat little experiment by Victor Ferreira and his co-authors suggests, as I read it, that we store a verbal style and perhaps our very character the same ...

The acquisition of language is a multifaceted process that extends well beyond deliberate instruction. Recent studies indicate that implicit learning—whereby individuals unconsciously absorb the ...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates touted on Monday Microsoft’s plans to build a declarative modeling language that could greatly reduce the need to code. Speaking at Microsoft’s 2008 Office System ...

Programs traditionally consist of a series of statements describing how to solve a problem. Declarative programs instead describe what problem to solve and what a solution would look like. The program ...