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The ACQDIV project explores the cognitive processes that enable children to learn diverse languages. It focuses on identifying universal learning mechanisms that adapt to different linguistic structures, using a comparative approach across various language clusters.
Children learn any language that they grow up with, adapting to any of the ca. 7000 languages of the world, no matter how divergent or complex their structures are.
What cognitive processes make this extreme flexibility possible?
This is one of the most burning questions in cognitive science and the ACQDIV project aims at answering it by testing and refining the following leading hypothesis:
Language acquisition is flexible and adaptive to any kind of language because it relies on a small set of…
University of Zurich
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