Heinz and Idsardi in Topics in Cognitive Science

Just out, "What complexity differences reveal about domains in language" by Bill Idsardi and Delaware's Jeff Heinz.

Just out, "What complexity differences reveal about domains in language" by Bill Idsardi and Delaware's Jeff Heinz. The article argues that humans employ distinct learning mechanisms for phonology and syntax, since this is the best explanation for a difference that has been overlooked: all phonological patterns belong to the regular region of the Chomsky Hierarchy, but not all syntactic patterns do.