Of Minds and Language

By Noam Chomsky. Biolinguistics, 2007

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This article reviews, and rethinks, a few leading themes of the biolinguistic program since its inception in the early 1950s, at each stage influenced by developments in the biological sciences. The following also discusses how the questions now entering the research agenda develop in a natural way from some of the earliest concerns of these inquiries.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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On the Absence of X-within-X Recursion in Human Grammar (2012, background): “…studioN] committeeN] sessionN] Every round of Merge then applies between two elements of the same category and produces another entity of the same category, effectively deriving a binary version of the arithmetical successor function with which Chomsky (2007) analogizes recursion/Merge in language.”
L3 syntactic transfer selectivity and typological determinacy: The typological primacy model (2011, background): “…the actual grammatical system of abstract mental representation (features and functional categories) as conceived of within a Principles and Parameters framework (see Chomsky, 2007, for review), which is quite different from previous proposals that might be taken to be similar by mere terminology.”