The power of cross-linguistic analysis: A key tool for developing explanatory models of human language

Clahsen's compelling evidence for the dual-mechanism model of the lexicon d erives in part from the use of cross-linguistic data in psycholinguistic re search. This approach reflects a growing (and positive) trend toward incorp orating data from several languages when analyzing and modeling human langu age behavior. This perspective should be expanded to include data from typo logically distinct languages to develop more explanatory models of language .