Faculty of Language

In a recent book ( here ), Chomsky wants to run an argument to explain why the Merge, the Basic Operation, is so simple. Note the ‘explain...

Linguists like to put languages into groups. Some of these, as in biology, are groupings based on historical descent (Germanic vs Romance),...

Deep learning : Here are two papers that investigate the “psychological reality” of   some popular deep learning models. They are particula...

The inimitable Bill Idsardi sent me two links to a recent paper on Foxp2 ( here and here ). The paper, a collaborative effort between Ann G...