Faculty of Language

This is the first of three posts on a forthcoming Cognition paper arguing against UG. The specific argument is against the Binding Theory....

Part 2 and a half showed us the consequences of the MSO-Merge correspondence, both good and bad. In an ideal world, there should be a way t...

Everyone believes that humans have a Universal Grammar (UG). Why?  Because it is a one step conclusion licensed by a trivial (...

--> This blog is the direct result of an article by Tom Bartlett in the May 12, 2012 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Educa...