In an earlier post, Is There A Language Instinct?, based on my book, The Language Myth, I observed that the philosopher and linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky, argues that Universal Grammar can be ...

Of all the epithets shoved on Noam Chomsky’s shelf – including being labelled the Father of Modern Linguistics – the Devil’s accountant sticks because it most coherently explains his worldview which ...

Who's afraid? Me. But let’s press on anyway. Noam Chomsky is a polarizing figure in modern intellectual life. Best known in popular discourse for his radical critique of U.S. foreign policy, he has ...

Noam Chomsky already believed in the second half of the 20 th century that humans are born with a predisposition to understand and learn language. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical ...

I prefer to keep to what is actually understood about evolutionary biology and not indulge in what evolutionary biologists dismiss as 'just-so' stories... stories we invent... 'maybe it happened this ...

How human children acquire language which is so complex and has so many variations - has been one of the biggest questions concerning the language learning process. Fifty years ago, linguist and ...

Tom Wolfe’s new book The Kingdom of Speech has started a row that promises to be the literary spat of the season The arcane study of language has a new literary entrant: the famed New Journalism ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Noam Chomsky’s political views attract so ...

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 ...