Evelina Leivada

Evelina Leivada is a psycholinguist and a Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. She was previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, funded through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program. Her main research interests are language variation and development.

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letter Linguistics as Science, Language as Mystery
In response to “On Aspects of the Theory of Syntax”
[short_description] Notions of competence and performance, language as a mystery, and the promotion of linguistics into a science—Evelina Leivada discusses controversial points in Anna Maria Di Sciullo’s essay.
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Linguistics Misused Terms in Linguistics [long_description] Many terms in linguistics, Evelina Leivada observes, are often used inconsistently, incorrectly, or incoherently: Universal Grammar, language universals, parameter, feature, linguistic genotype, language faculty in a narrow sense, hardwired, and grammaticality judgment. These are the very terms that linguists have learned to love, striking evidence that love is often blind.

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