𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗲?" 𝗯𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗺𝘀𝗸𝘆 -

Dense and hardly introductory linguistics, Chomsky's essays clearly and persuasively establish the limits to human understanding and language, an epistemological box called biology.

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𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗲?” 𝗯𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗺𝘀𝗸𝘆 -

Chomsky's argument that human language and cognition are conditioned by biology is briefly unpacked as he traces both the nature of external (E-) and internal (I- / grammar) language facility and the history of thinkers who wrestled with it. Thick but enlightening.

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗲"? 𝗯𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗺𝘀𝗸𝘆

Foray into some recent linguistic theory about language and the brain, relocating the definition of language in our biology rather than our outward communication. The consequences for the shift are numerous!

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TBR Pile: July Reads -

What I'm reading in July!

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