Published on Apr 7, 2015 Keynote address recorded March 14, 2015 at the inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science in Amsterdam. Saturday, 14 March 2015 George Lakoff Departments of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA How do we answer the question, “How are thought and language constituted by the brain’s neural circuitry?” … Read more
This is a very interesting article from Julie Sedivy at Nautilus that riffs on another article from Nautilus, by Elizabeth Svoboda, The Family That Couldn’t Say Hippopotamus. The latter article presents recent genetic research that weakens (at best) or refutes (at worst) Noam Chomsky’s universal grammar hypothesis (which, aside from Geoffrey Sampson, George Lakoff, and … Read more
If you’re a bibliophile and a lover of the beauty and sensuousness of the spoken and written word (like Stephen Fry in this fantastic animated essay), then you probably already know about the sophistication, the richness, and the history (animated, no less) of the English language. But if don’t have a strong background on grammar … Read more