Brains sell magazines, mathematical linguistics sells caffeine. That basically summarizes coverage of a recent study on songbirds' "artificial grammar system". More on that later. First, a summary of ...
According to Noam Chomsky's linguistic theories, humans have evolved to possess an innate, biological set of grammatical "building blocks" of which recursion -- the ability to insert one phrase inside ...
Tom Wolfe wrote a book ostensibly about science that reads as one on snobbery. The Kingdom of Speech offers not one but two haughty villains in Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky. Alfred Russel Wallace ...