Academic Degrees Ph.D. Univ. Concentration in the fields of psychology, philosophy, and linguistics. Teaching and research involve an interdisciplinary approach. I consider myself a generalist rather than a specialist. Universal grammar focuses on linguistic structures that are believed to be innate, e.g. patterns of sentence structure.
Generative grammar defines knowledge of language as knowledge of syntax.
There is a rich body of research in this area on these questions, especially on language acquisition in children. Studies the mechanisms of propaganda, thought control, and coercion by which regimes attempt to exercise total control over the population Control of communication., especially the media. The critical analysis of the media and its efforts to shape our perceptions of social and political reality. Through such a collective effort all major journals in our area would be accessible. Such a plan would , for example, make accessible to all German departments in Ohio on an interlibrary loan basis the forthcoming edition of Goethe's Works on CD-ROM technology.