Faculty of Language

There are many (e.g. Erich Jarvis) who think that the basic hierarchical properties of language are direct reflections of its vocalic expre...

Universities are spending more and more money on administrative staff. Here is a post with references to more in depth material that puts s...

There is currently a fight going on in cog-neuro whose outcome GGers should care about. It is illuminatingly discussed in a recent paper by...

The NYT obit on Jerry Fodor accurately recognizes the important contributions he made to philosophy, psychology and linguistics. The one re...

Jerry Fodor was one of the great analytic philosophers of his era, and that is saying a lot. Contemporaries include, Hilary Putnam, Robert ...

Here is a terrific post William Matchin first posted on Talking Brains reviewing some of the highlights of the two big recent cog-neuro meet...