Tortoise talk proves a turtle surprise by Kaya Burgess in The Times 22 November 2022
The ancestors of language look to be very widespread. Researchers have been considering the sounds...
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The ancestors of language look to be very widespread. Researchers have been considering the sounds...
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The origins of language go back 400 million years. Recent research has established that many...
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Inner speech and consciousness are not the same thing. We are (almost) all familiar with the voice...
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Strange how we still cannot agree on the origins of language. The authors have just brought out a...
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We are learning more and more about animal communications. Recent research with chimpanzees shows...
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AI is well suited to interpreting animal communications. It is surprising that nobody thought of...
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An elegant explanation of language and thought and how they relate to each other. This is the sort...
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An elegant explanation of language and thought and how they relate to each other. This is the sort...
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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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