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Examining Online Syntactic Processing of Spoken Complex Sentences in Chinese Using Dual-Modal Interference Tasks
Published on: September 5, 2019
What complexity differences reveal about domains in language
Jeffrey Heinz1, William Idsardi
1Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, Newark 19716, USA. heinz@udel.edu
Abstract:
An important distinction between phonology and syntax has been overlooked. All phonological patterns belong to the regular region of the Chomsky Hierarchy, but not all syntactic patterns do. We argue that the hypothesis that humans employ distinct learning mechanisms for phonology and syntax currently offers the best explanation for this difference.
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