Sunday, March 31, 2019

Seeing with your tongue

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EM: You refuse to look through my telescope. TK (gravely): It's not a telescope, Errol. It's a kaleidoscope. Exchange recounted in...
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Friday, March 29, 2019

More on "arbitrary"

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Bill Idsardi Alex and Tobias have upped the ante, raised the stakes and doubled down in the substance debate, advocating a "radical s...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

That 32GB flashdrive? It's 20,000 people worth of language acquisition information

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Today in the Royal Society Open Science : Mollica F, Piantadosi ST. 2019. Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language ...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

A new player has entered the game

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Here is a guest post from Alex Chabot and Tobias Scheer picking up a thread  from about a year ago now. Bill Alex Chabot & Tobias Sc...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Alec Marantz on the goals and methods of Generative Grammar

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I always like reading papers aimed at non-specialists by leading lights of a specialty. This includes areas that I have some competence in. ...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Dan Milway discusses Katz's semantic theory

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Dan Milway has an interesting project: reading Jerrold Katz's semantic investigations and discussing them for/with/near us. Here are two...
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Omer on the autonomy of syntax; though you will be surprised what the autonomy is from!

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Here is a post from Omer that bears on the autonomy issue. There are various conceptions of autonomy. The weakest is simply the claim that ...
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