Nearly 7,000 different languages are spoken across the world. But how these languages evolved has long been a source of debate. Now, a group of German researchers has uncovered exactly how language ...
A new research project is looking for evidence of “universal grammar” – the notion that humans are hard-wired to understand language from birth. A new research project is looking for evidence of ...
The aged linguist and activist Noam Chomsky is suddenly back in the news, not because of his political pronouncements, but because of the highly technical linguistic theories he enunciated more than ...
The cognitive linguist Michael Tomasello recently proclaimed that "universal grammar is dead." According to the most prominent linguist of recent times, Noam Chomsky, universal grammar is the inborn ...
Vol. 12, No. 4, Special Issue on GENERAL NATIVISM AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (October 1996), pp. 335-373 (39 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Ltd. This article is about nativist theories ...
Paul Ibbotson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Latest issue of New Scientist has an interview with Noam Chomsky on, language, human nature, social media and politics, as well as a little photo gallery. Excerpt here, the full thing is online, you ...
Language makes us human. For a long time, psychologists, linguists and neuroscientists have been racking their brains about how we process what we hear and read. One of them is the renowned linguist ...
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