Faculty of Language

In what follows I am going to wander way beyond my level of expertise (perhaps even rudimentary competence). I am going to discuss statisti...

Just back from vacation and here is a starter post on, of all things, Evolang (once again).    Frans de Waal  has written a short and usefu...

One of the perks of academic life is the opportunity to learn from your colleagues. This semester I am sitting in on Jeff Lidz’s graduate i...

There has been a bit of a kerfuffle in the thread to What’s Chomsky Thinking Now concerning Fodor’s claim that all of ou...