Faculty of Language

The new AI is called "deep learning." There is a lot of money going into it (Google, I think just bought Hinton, the big cheese in...

Bill Idsardi sent me this piece on bird navigation. It seems that Swainson thrushes have genetically built in maps that get them from Canad...

This is the second installment of comments on lecture 4. The first part is here . The Minimal Labeling Algorithm (MLA)             ...

One of the forces behind the "crapification" of academic life (see here)  is the fact that it is increasingly being managed by ...

Last week I wondered about the notion of syntactic category, aka part of speech (POS). My worry is that we have no clear idea what kind of ...

I have just finished listening to Chomsky’s fourth lecture and so this will be the last series of posts on them ( here ). If you have not s...

Gary Marcus here discusses a recent brouhaha taking place in the European neuro-science community. The kerfuffle, not surprisingly, is abo...