Faculty of Language

Chomsky often claims that the conceptual underpinnings of the Minimalist Program (MP) are little more than the injunction to do good scienc...

In a recent paper ( here) , Tecumseh Fitch (TF) and colleagues argue that monkey vocal tracts are structurally adequate for the production ...

I have a confession to make: I am not a fan of parameters. I have come to dislike them for two reasons. First, they don’t fit well with wha...

My daughter loved this time of year for its gift giving possibilities. Why choose Hanukkah over Xmas over Kwanza when you can celebrate all ...

I ran across two more things of interest. The first is this post  on Gelman's blog that reviews a recent paper in PNAS suggesting that...

Angel Galego passed along these links ( here and here ) to a recent Q&A that Chomsky had in Spain. The questions were fun and the answe...

The proliferation of handbooks on linguistics identifies a gap in the field. There are so many now that there is an obvious need for a hand...