Faculty of Language

Chris sent me this longish response to some of what has appeared in the blog. In the hope of getting him to become a regularish participant ...

Usually I would have been busy today bringing the excitement of parts of speech and phrase structure rules to a group of surprisingly ener...

This earlier post quoting Rob Chametzky’s typology of linguistic research generated some interesting discussion, much of it needed in my o...

From Bob Berwick: a link to an article indicating just how complicated evolution is. Just-so stories not only fail to deliver the goods, th...

Funny post from Andrew Gelman ( here ). Science without scientists. I've always thought that main problem with word processing programs ...

The topic is getting some play in the blogosphere due in part to the post on this matter by Sean Carroll (the physicist at Cal Tech, not the...

For light entertainment, I have just read answers to the Edge question of the year: “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?” Edge.or...