We start this page with the hypothesis that the lexicon is initially underspecified: that some features may be NIL (not specified as either plus or minus). A NIL feature is represented either with no ...

It is often claimed that music and language share a process of hierarchical structure building, a mental “syntax.” Although several lines of research point to commonalities, and possibly a shared ...

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I'm looking for pointers to set me on the right course to formalize both the way command syntax is specified and the commands themselves. I started with 2 BNF grammars, one for syntax and one for ...

To take one example, Jackendoff and Wittenberg (2017) have proposed a stage in language evolution that would have involved what they call linear grammar, that is, simple stringing of words, where the ...