The growth of language is a shared endeavour. It almost goes without saying that the evolution of...
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It’s an accident that we use the alphabet. John Darnell et al published a landmark paper in 2006....
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Dr Doolittle lives again. This is a truly wide-ranging canter through the ways in which many types...
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Maybe human language is not as distinctive as previously thought. Researchers have been looking at...
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Asks the right question. Not sure about the answer. Wolfe starts by nailing the key question. We...
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Understanding the point about understanding the point. We are all familiar with the point that...
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Brilliantly insightful on the connections between language and consciousness. The book comprises a...
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Language begins with Homo erectus. There are two types of linguist: those who believe it’s all in...
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The brain’s re-entrant connectivity turns lexical language into grammatical language. This paper...
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Everett and Chomsky bracket the debate around the beginnings of language. On the face of it, the...
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This is an excellent and succinct article on the history of ideas in the realm of how humans...
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In the Abstract to the paper, Pinker and Jackendoff state: ‘We examine the question of which...
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In his paper, Ray Jackendoff puts forward a compelling case as to why thought and language are not...
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The article spells out in some detail why we have found it so difficult to build algorithms capable of … language …
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The article reports on work presented to a recent web conference on the subject of ‘personal attacks …
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This is an extremely important book in that it consolidates Jackendoff’s hypothesis (the ‘Unconscious Meaning Hypothesis’) …
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