Language and the human mind: understanding the way we communicate












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            * Language and the human mind: understanding the way we communicate
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            The project is concerned with the complex problem of language origin and language evolutio

            the permanent variability of grammatical structure. The research is based on close analysi
            language material: the everyday conversational usage as well as historical texts. Both per
            invaluable insights concerning (i) the cognitive processes involved in the emergence and e

            grammatical systems, (ii) the principles of verbal interaction in specific socio?pragmatic
            (iii) the ways human mind processes information. The project combines cognitive linguistic
            linguistics, experimental psycholinguistics, and conversational analysis. In addition to t

            theoretical relevance, some of the findings may reach into certain applied areas as well, 
            development of speech recognition tools for spontaneous speech.





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            * Selected outputs
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            • Fried, Mirjam (2014). Irregular morphology in regular syntactic patterns: a case of cons
              alignment. In J. Bar?dal, S. Gildea, E. Smirnova & L. Sommerer (eds.), Diachronic Constr
              pp. 141-174. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

            • Zíková, Magdalena & Pavel Machač (2015): Parallel articulation: the phonetic base and th
              potentiality. Slovo a slovesnost.
            • Kim, Ronald (2014). A tale of two suffixes: *-h2-, *-ih2-, and the evolution of feminine

              Indo-European. In Sergio Neri & Roland Schuhmann(eds.), Studies on the Collective and Fe
              European from a Diachronic and Typological Perspective, pp. 115-36. Leiden: Brill.