Barbara C Scholz

Biographic Data

ID732392
NAMEBarbara C Scholz
GIVEN NAMESBarbara C
FAMILY NAMEScholz
SIGNATURESCHOLZ B C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX3

  • Anaphoric one and its implications

    Open AccessJohn Payne, Geoffrey K Pullum et al.ARTICLELanguage2013Cited by: 7References: 3

    The nominal anaphoric element one has figured prominently in discussions of linguistic nativism because of an important argument advanced by C. L. Baker (1978). His argument has been frequently cited within the cognitive and linguistic sciences, and has provided the topic for a chain of experimental and computational psycholinguistics papers. Baker's crucial grammaticality facts, though much repeated in the literature, have not been critically in…

  • Tracking the origins of transformational generative grammar

    Open AccessBarbara C Scholz, Geoffrey K PullumARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2007Cited by: 3References: 4

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  • Gold's theorems and the logical problem of language acquisition

    Open AccessBarbara C ScholzARTICLEJournal of Child Language2004

    Evaluating Brian MacWhinney's multiple ‘solutions’ to the logical problem of language acquisition requires delineating exactly what the alleged problem is. He takes it to stem from the theorems of Gold (1967), the most celebrated of which is G1

  • Searching for arguments to support linguistic nativism

    Barbara C Scholz, Geoffrey K PullumARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2002

    c©Walter de Gruyter Few arguments are more dangerous than the ones that feel right but cant be justiÞed. Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (1981: 157) 1

  • Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments

    Geoffrey K Pullum, Barbara C ScholzARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2002

    This article examines a type of argument for linguistic nativism that takes the following form: (i) a fact about some natural language is exhibited that allegedly could not be learned from experience without access to a certain kind of (positive) data; (ii) it is claimed that data of the type in question are not found in normal linguistic experience; hence (iii) it is concluded that people cannot be learning the language from mere exposure to lan…

  • Twentieth Century Conceptions of Language

    Geoffrey K Pullum, Barbara C Scholz et al.ARTICLELanguage1995Cited by: 7