The Competence Center in Digital Linguistics & Human Behaviour of Ntt Data Italia is born in Naples, with the goal of bringing together linguistic and behavioral skills to tackle technological ...

Pragmatic competence—the ability to navigate the subtleties of social and cultural language use—remains a pivotal area in second language acquisition research. This aspect of language proficiency ...

Noam Chomsky’s distinction between competence and performance has been controversial in linguistics and psycholinguistics for 50 years. The proponents of generative grammar presuppose it and rely on ...

Our M.A. is a flexible program of study that provides training in linguistics and/or cognitive science. Students may propose a customized program of advanced study that combines elements from either ...

Linguists, particularly in the generative tradition, commonly rely upon intuitions about sentences as a key source of evidence for their theories. While widespread, this methodology has also been ...

When learning a specialist subject it is necessary to use specific language skills, alongside the specialist language content. However, children from educationally deprived backgrounds or those with ...