Faculty of Language

An “unknown” commentator left links to two very interesting Gary Marcus (GM) pieces ( here 1 and here 2) on the current state of Deep Learn...

As time goes by, bets against the veracity of the Gallistel-King conjecture (see here and here ) are becoming longer and longer. Don’t get...

All papers involve at least two levels of discourse. The first comprises the thesis: what is being argued? What evidence is there for what...

Preface This post continues a theme started here and here . Broadly, this series of posts is an attempt to highlight the daylight that ex...

Here are three very short pieces that might amuse you. The first ( here ) discusses the complex ways that birds cooperate while singing to...

There are many (e.g. Erich Jarvis) who think that the basic hierarchical properties of language are direct reflections of its vocalic expre...