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Syntax shaped by cognition: transforming theories of syntactic systems through laboratory experiments

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Coordinator	THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Organization address address: OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE city: EDINBURGH postcode: EH8 9YL website: www.ed.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	United Kingdom [UK]
Total cost	1˙425˙440 €
EC max contribution	1˙425˙440 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2017-STG
Funding Scheme	ERC-STG
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-02-01 to 2023-01-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Organization address address: OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE city: EDINBURGH postcode: EH8 9YL website: www.ed.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (EDINBURGH)	coordinator	1˙414˙300.00
2	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Organization address address: GOWER STREET city: LONDON postcode: WC1E 6BT website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (LONDON)	participant	11˙140.00

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Project objective

Human language is incredibly diverse: languages differ at all levels of linguistic structure from phonetics to syntax. But behind these differences there are intriguing similarities, patterns that reappear across many languages, and others that rarely crop up. A foundational goal of linguistics is to distil a set of principles explaining the shared features of our languages by appealing to properties of the human cognitive and linguistic system. While many such principles have been formulated, throughout the history of the field, little direct behavioural evidence has been offered for them. Indeed, the connection between common features of language systems and cognition is controversial in the broader community of scientists studying language from different perspectives. Longstanding debates center around whether such constraints exist, what features of cognition they might reflect, and if they are specific to language.

Recent methodological innovations have carved out a path for progress by allowing linguists to investigate hypothesized constraints on language directly, using laboratory language learning experiments. In phonology, this has led to game-changing advances–expanding the empirical data available, and leading to new theories and models of the phonological grammar and how it is learned. The overarching goal of this project is to jumpstart a parallel transformation in syntax. I will undertake the first large scale experimental investigation of cognitive constraints underlying syntax. The rich body of behavioral data generated will provide evidence for theoretically significant constraints, the cognitive factors they are grounded in, the cognitive domains they apply in, and how they change over development. The data will be used to develop state-of-the-art computational models, galvanizing progress towards a unified account of how cognition shapes core aspects of the world's languages.

Publications

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year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Carmen Saldana, Yohei Oseki, Jennifer Culbertson Do crosslinguistic patterns of morpheme order reflect a cognitive bias? published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society	2019-08-29
2019	Mora Maldonado, Jennifer Culbertson Something about us: Learning first person pronoun systems published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society	2019-08-29
2019	Jennifer Culbertson, Hanna Jarvinen, Frances Haggarty, Kenny Smith Childrenâ€™s Sensitivity to Phonological and Semantic Cues During Noun Class Learning: Evidence for a Phonological Bias published pages: , ISSN: 1535-0665, DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.0234	Language	2019-08-29

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