"Good authors act as models of language for us," she said, her face glowing with excitement.
Later work cast doubt on these findings, and most psycholinguists are now more cautious about using grammars produced by linguists as models of language processing.
Many of the results of this work were controversial and inconclusive, and psycholinguistics has been turning increasingly to other functionally related and socially oriented models of language structure.
Of a much less controversial nature is the extensive and fruitful use of recursive function theory and related areas of logic in formal grammars and in the formal models of language users.
In formal models of language learning, the evidence items are strings, representing grammatical strings from the language to be learned.
Independently of either of these traditions, Joachim Lambek considered mathematical models of language and syntax (Lambek 1958, 1961).
A central concern of decolonial linguistics enables asking new questions that destabilize established Eurocentric models of language.
Traditional neurological models of language were based on a single neural pathway (the dorsal pathway underpinned by the arcuate fasciculus).
This situation fuelled the recent shift away from hypothesis testing models of language acquisition and towards parameter setting models discussed in §2.1 above.
"We need to look at places like Australia, which offer models of language diversification closest to the earliest state that shaped humankind," Evans says.
Thus, in contrast to Gongsun Long, their investigations were not aimed at establishing a universal linguistic system that could unify divergent models of language application.
