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    How grammar can cope with limited short-term memory: Simultaneity and seriality in sign languages.Carlo Geraci, Marta Gozzi, Costanza Papagno & Carlo Cecchetto - 2008 - Cognition 106 (2):780-804.
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    Artificial Grammar Learning Capabilities in an Abstract Visual Task Match Requirements for Linguistic Syntax.Gesche Westphal-Fitch, Beatrice Giustolisi, Carlo Cecchetto, Jordan S. Martin & W. Tecumseh Fitch - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9:387357.
    Whether pattern-parsing mechanisms are specific to language or apply across multiple cognitive domains remains unresolved. Formal language theory provides a mathematical framework for classifying pattern-generating rule sets (or “grammars”) according to complexity. This framework applies to patterns at any level of complexity, stretching from simple sequences, to highly complex tree-like or net-like structures, to any Turing-computable set of strings. Here, we explored human pattern-processing capabilities in the visual domain by generating abstract visual sequences made up of abstract tiles differing in (...)
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    From grammar to meaning: the spontaneous logicality of language.Ivano Caponigro & Carlo Cecchetto (eds.) - 2013 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    In recent years, the study of formal semantics and formal pragmatics has grown tremendously showing that core aspects of language meaning can be explained by a few principles. These principles are grounded in the logic that is behind - and tightly intertwined with - the grammar of human language. In this book, some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature of linguistic meaning and pave the way for (...)
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    Performance of Deaf Participants in an Abstract Visual Grammar Learning Task at Multiple Formal Levels: Evaluating the Auditory Scaffolding Hypothesis.Beatrice Giustolisi, Jordan S. Martin, Gesche Westphal-Fitch, W. Tecumseh Fitch & Carlo Cecchetto - 2022 - Cognitive Science 46 (2):e13114.
    Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 2, February 2022.
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    On the Reliability of the Notion of Native Signer and Its Risks.Giorgia Zorzi, Beatrice Giustolisi, Valentina Aristodemo, Carlo Cecchetto, Charlotte Hauser, Josep Quer, Jordina Sánchez Amat & Caterina Donati - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13:716554.
    Who is a native signer? Since around 95% of deaf infants are born into a hearing family, deaf signers are exposed to a sign language at various moments of their life, and not only from birth. Moreover, the linguistic input they are exposed to is not always a fully fledged natural sign language. In this situation, is the notion of native signer as someone exposed to language from birth of any use? We review the results of the first large-scale cross-linguistic (...)
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    Explaining the locality conditions of QR: Consequences for the theory of phases. [REVIEW]Carlo Cecchetto - 2004 - Natural Language Semantics 12 (4):345-397.
    In this paper I offer an explanation for the fact that QR tends to be more local than other types of A-bar movement (i.e., in typical cases, QR cannot take place out of a finite clause). My explanation assumes (and offers evidence for) the Phase Impenetrability Condition (cf. Chomsky 2001a, b) and an Economy Condition that requires that each step of (possibly successive cyclic) QR be motivated (cf. Fox 1999). After showing why QR is local in typical cases, I consider (...)
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