This paper explores a variety of different versions of the thesis that natural language is
involved in human thinking. It distinguishes amongst strong and weak forms of this thesis …

A central goal of modern generative grammar has been to discover invariant properties of
human languages that reflect “the innate schematism of mind that is applied to the data of …

Modern machine learning has subverted and bypassed the theoretical framework of
Chomsky's generative approach to linguistics, including its core claims to particular insights …

We studied the learnability of English filler-gap dependencies and the “island” constraints on
them by assessing the generalizations made by autoregressive (incremental) language …

Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it
develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

This book explores the idea that we have two minds. In recent years there has been great
interest in so-called dual-process theories of reasoning and rationality. According to dual …

Learners that are exposed to the same training data might generalize differently due to
differing inductive biases. In neural network models, inductive biases could in theory arise …

The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and
language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is …

There is a “Science and Culture War” currently raging in academia, and it has spilled over
into the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). When TESOL Quarterly devoted a …