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Lauren Fletcher; Hugh Rabagliati; Jennifer Culbertson – Cognitive Science, 2024
There is ample evidence that individual-level cognitive mechanisms active during language learning and use can contribute to the evolution of language. For example, experimental work suggests that learners will reduce case marking in a language where grammatical roles are reliably indicated by fixed word order, a correlation found robustly in the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Autism Spectrum Disorders, English, Language Processing