Robert C Berwick, PhD - Publications

Affiliations: 
computer science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States 
Area:
linguistics
Website:
https://idss.mit.edu/staff/robert-c-berwick/

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Year Citation  Score
2019 Berwick RC, Chomsky N. All or nothing: No half-Merge and the evolution of syntax. Plos Biology. 17: e3000539. PMID 31774809 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000539  0.833
2018 Bolhuis JJ, Beckers GJL, Huybregts MAC, Berwick RC, Everaert MBH. The slings and arrows of comparative linguistics. Plos Biology. 16: e3000019. PMID 30248090 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000019  0.714
2018 Bolhuis JJ, Beckers GJL, Huybregts MAC, Berwick RC, Everaert MBH. Meaningful syntactic structure in songbird vocalizations? Plos Biology. 16: e2005157. PMID 29864124 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005157  0.821
2018 Sprouse J, Yankama B, Indurkhya S, Fong S, Berwick RC. Colorless green ideas do sleep furiously: gradient acceptability and the nature of the grammar The Linguistic Review. 35: 575-599. DOI: 10.1515/Tlr-2018-0005  0.305
2017 Friederici AD, Chomsky N, Berwick RC, Moro A, Bolhuis JJ. Language, mind and brain. Nature Human Behaviour. 1: 713-722. PMID 31024099 DOI: 10.1038/S41562-017-0184-4  0.855
2017 Everaert MBH, Huybregts MAC, Berwick RC, Chomsky N, Tattersall I, Moro A, Bolhuis JJ. What is Language and How Could it Have Evolved? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. PMID 28619240 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tics.2017.05.007  0.859
2017 Yang C, Crain S, Berwick RC, Chomsky N, Bolhuis JJ. The growth of language: Universal Grammar, experience, and principles of computation. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. PMID 28077259 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neubiorev.2016.12.023  0.818
2017 Berwick RC, Chomsky N. Why only us: Recent questions and answers Journal of Neurolinguistics. 43: 166-177. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.12.002  0.85
2016 Beckers GJ, Berwick RC, Okanoya K, Bolhuis JJ. What do animals learn in artificial grammar studies? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. PMID 28017840 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.12.021  0.692
2016 Huybregts MA, Berwick RC, Bolhuis JJ. The language within. Science (New York, N.Y.). 352: 1286. PMID 27284187 DOI: 10.1126/science.aag0933  0.827
2015 Everaert MB, Huybregts MA, Chomsky N, Berwick RC, Bolhuis JJ. Structures, Not Strings: Linguistics as Part of the Cognitive Sciences. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. PMID 26564247 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.09.008  0.86
2015 Bolhuis JJ, Tattersall I, Chomsky N, Berwick RC. Language: UG or not to be, that is the question. Plos Biology. 13: e1002063. PMID 25679209 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002063  0.858
2014 Beckers GJ, Berwick RC, Bolhuis JJ. Comparative analyses of speech and language converge on birds. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37: 547-8; discussion 57. PMID 25514937 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13003956  0.805
2014 Bolhuis JJ, Tattersall I, Chomsky N, Berwick RC. How could language have evolved? Plos Biology. 12: e1001934. PMID 25157536 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001934  0.86
2014 Miyagawa S, Ojima S, Berwick RC, Okanoya K. The integration hypothesis of human language evolution and the nature of contemporary languages. Frontiers in Psychology. 5: 564. PMID 24936195 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2014.00564  0.579
2014 Hauser MD, Yang C, Berwick RC, Tattersall I, Ryan MJ, Watumull J, Chomsky N, Lewontin RC. The mystery of language evolution. Frontiers in Psychology. 5: 401. PMID 24847300 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2014.00401  0.842
2013 Berwick RC, Hauser MD, Tattersall I. Neanderthal language? Just-so stories take center stage. Frontiers in Psychology. 4: 671. PMID 24069017 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00671  0.543
2013 Miyagawa S, Berwick RC, Okanoya K. The emergence of hierarchical structure in human language. Frontiers in Psychology. 4: 71. PMID 23431042 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2013.00071  0.513
2013 Berwick RC, Friederici AD, Chomsky N, Bolhuis JJ. Evolution, brain, and the nature of language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 17: 89-98. PMID 23313359 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.12.002  0.862
2013 Wang Y, Berwick RC. Formal Relational Rules of English Syntax for Cognitive Linguistics, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Computing Journal of Advanced Mathematics and Applications. 2: 182-195. DOI: 10.1166/jama.2013.1042  0.321
2013 Berwick RC, Chomsky N, Piattelli-Palmarini M. Poverty of the Stimulus Stands: Why Recent Challenges Fail1 Rich Languages From Poor Inputs. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590339.003.0002  0.563
2013 Piattelli-Palmarini M, Berwick RC. Rich Languages From Poor Inputs Rich Languages From Poor Inputs. 1-336. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590339.001.0001  0.624
2013 Villavicencio A, Idiart M, Berwick R, Malioutov I. Language acquisition and probabilistic models: Keeping it simple Acl 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association For Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. 1: 1321-1330.  0.601
2012 Berwick RC, Beckers GJ, Okanoya K, Bolhuis JJ. A Bird's Eye View of Human Language Evolution. Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience. 4: 5. PMID 22518103 DOI: 10.3389/fnevo.2012.00005  0.851
2012 Beckers GJ, Bolhuis JJ, Okanoya K, Berwick RC. Birdsong neurolinguistics: songbird context-free grammar claim is premature. Neuroreport. 23: 139-45. PMID 22240730 DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834f1765  0.814
2011 Berwick RC, Pietroski P, Yankama B, Chomsky N. Poverty of the stimulus revisited. Cognitive Science. 35: 1207-42. PMID 21824178 DOI: 10.1111/J.1551-6709.2011.01189.X  0.794
2011 Berwick RC, Okanoya K, Beckers GJ, Bolhuis JJ. Songs to syntax: the linguistics of birdsong. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 15: 113-21. PMID 21296608 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.01.002  0.858
2011 Berwick RC. Songs to syntax: Cognition, combinatorial computation, and the origin of language International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence. 5: 22-32. DOI: 10.4018/jcini.2011100102  0.549
2009 Niyogi P, Berwick RC. The proper treatment of language acquisition and change in a population setting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 10124-9. PMID 19497883 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903993106  0.54
2009 Berwick RC. What genes can't learn about language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 1685-6. PMID 19193856 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812871106  0.433
1998 Niyogi P, Berwick RC. The Logical Problem of Language Change: A Case Study of European Portuguese Syntax. 1: 192-205. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9612.00007  0.645
1997 Niyogi P, Berwick RC. Evolutionary consequences of language learning Linguistics and Philosophy. 20: 637-667. DOI: 10.1023/A:1005319718167  0.54
1997 Berwick RC. Syntax facit saltum: Computation and the genotype and phenotype of language Journal of Neurolinguistics. 10: 231-249.  0.542
1996 Niyogi P, Berwick RC. A language learning model for finite parameter spaces. Cognition. 61: 161-93. PMID 8990971 DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(96)00718-4  0.566
1991 Berwick RC. Computational complexity theory and natural language: A paradox resolved Theoretical Linguistics. 17: 123-158. DOI: 10.1515/thli.1991.17.1-3.123  0.487
1989 Ristad ES, Berwick RC. Computational consequences of agreement and ambiguity in natural language Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 33: 379-396. DOI: 10.1016/0022-2496(89)90018-7  0.599
1989 Berwick RC. Natural language, computational complexity, and generative capacity Computers and Artificial Intelligence. 8: 423-441.  0.535
1985 Berwick RC, Weinberg AS. Deterministic parsing and linguistic explanation Language and Cognitive Processes. 1: 109-134. DOI: 10.1080/01690968508402074  0.595
1983 Berwick RC, Weinberg AS. The role of grammars in models of language use. Cognition. 13: 1-61. PMID 6681740 DOI: 10.1016/0010-0277(83)90002-1  0.58
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