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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The father of modern linguistics delivered the first of several public lectures at UCLA on Monday as part of a weeklong lecture series. Noam Chomsky, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts ...

Language takes an astonishing variety of forms across the world—to such a huge extent that a long-standing debate rages around the question of whether all languages have even a single property in ...

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 ...

The Pirahã are an “ordinary sort of folk,” says Philip Oltermann, a contributor to the British magazine. “They enjoy chatting and socializing,” as well as “a drink or two -- not unlike your average ...