Faculty of Language

Every now and then I play this game: how would Chomsky respond?  I do this for a variety of reasons. First, I respect his smarts and I think...

Olaf K asks in the comments section to this post why I am not impressed with ML accounts of Aux-to-C (AC) in English. Here’s the short ans...

MP makes the working assumption that whatever happened to allow FL to emerge in its current state happened recently in evo time. This, in tu...

Berwick, Friederici, Chomsky and Bolhuis (BFCB) have a newpaper that discusses Darwin’s Problem and Broca’s Problem (i.e. how b...

In the last several years I have become a really big fan of singing mice.   It seems that unbeknownst to us, these white ...