A comprehensive model of natural language processing in the brain must accommodate four components: representations, operations, structures and encoding. It further requires a principled account...

Machine intelligence is increasingly being linked to claims about sentience, language processing, and an ability to comprehend and transform natural language into a range of stimuli. We...

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日本言語学会第161回大会講演(2020/11/22)ノーム・チョムスキー "Minimalism: where we are now, and where we are going."-----Lecture at 161st meeting of Linguistic Society of Japan by ...

Nature Communications - Limitations of spatiotemporal resolution have rendered it difficult to isolate language. Here, intracranial recordings were used to map semantic processes pertaining to...

#Linguistics #Inspiration #EducationIn his concluding episode, Andrew shares how his passion for mountain climbing shapes him as a language scientist. He dis...

Artificial Intelligence applications show great potential for language-related tasks that rely on next-word prediction. The current generation of large language models have been linked to claims...

It has been established for some time that individuals with strong political beliefs tend to display greater confidence in them than individuals who have

Steven T. Piantadosihttp://colala.berkeley.edu/people/piantadosi/Elliot Murphyhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=4AYNRj0AAAAJhttps://twitter.com...

In this study we compared how well DALL-E 2 visually represented the meaning of linguistic prompts also given to young children in comprehension tests. Sentences representing fundamental...

A Neurocomputational Perspective on SyntaxHow are basic linguistic computations implemented in the brain? Drawing on recent findings from the biological and ...

After having a recent conversation with Steven Piantadosi on large language models, I wanted to briefly comment here on some of the themes in our discussion, before turning to additional critiques …

In order to design strong paradigms for isolating lexical access and semantics, we need to know what a word is. Surprisingly few linguists and philosophers have a clear model of what a word is,...

Natural language syntax yields an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions. We claim that these are used in the service of active inference in accord with the free-energy principle...

Psycholinguistic theory has traditionally pointed to the importance of explicit symbol manipulation in humans, to explain our unique facility for symbolic forms of intelligence such as language and…

In a new study to be published in next week’s issue of PNAS, Yuan Yang and Steven Piantadosi’s paper, “One model for the learning of language,” attempts to show that language acquisition is possibl…

Natural phenomena, including human language, are not just series of events but are organized quasi-periodically; sentences have structure, and that structure...

The ability to comprehend phrases is an essential component of language. Here we evaluate the neural processes that enable the transition from single word processing to a minimal compositional scheme...

The syntactic Merge operation of the Minimalist Program in linguistics can be described mathematically in terms of Hopf algebras, with a formalism similar to the one arising in the physics of...

Does age impact how we listen to audiobooks? New research suggests that older adults process language in subtly different ways than younger adults.

Recent neuroscientific research commonly dismisses traditional concepts from linguistic theory, but without anything to put in its place.

Steven T. Piantadosihttp://colala.berkeley.edu/people/piantadosi/Elliot Murphyhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=4AYNRj0AAAAJhttps://twitter.com...

In standard models of language production or comprehension, the elements which are retrieved from memory and combined into a syntactic structure are “lemmas” or “lexical items.” Such models implici...

Class 11 of Rule Following and Normativity, Spring 2021, taught by Professors Kripke and Padro at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Cambridge Core - Grammar and Syntax - The Merge Hypothesis

Jürgen Schmidhuber believes AI will progress to the point where it surpasses human intelligence and will pay no attention to people

In the Minimalist Program, the place of linguistic communication in language evolution and design is clear: It is assumed to be secondary to internalisation. I will defend this position against its...

Sailing the Seas of Confusion with Language Typologist Martin Haspelmath

Words and Rules“The way language works, then, is that each person’s brain contains a lexicon of words and the concepts they stand for (a mental dictionary) and a set of rules that combine the words...

Much is known about the acquisition of phonological competence and lexical categories, but there has been substantially less research into word meaning devel...

ROSE: A neurocomputational architecture for syntaxhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S091160442300057X?Elliot MurphyHighlights• Reviews curren...

Semantic internalism is the view that linguistic meaning amounts to forms of conceptual instructions, and that the process of forming linguistic representations does not involve reference to extra-...

Noam Chomsky was born on 7 December 1928. In Captain Fantastic (2016), the family celebrate Noam Chomsky Day instead of Christmas.

Oxford University Linguistics Society speaks with Professor Norbert Hornstein about generative grammar and the minimalist program.

In this paper we compare some old formulations of Minimalism, in particular Stabler's computational minimalism, and Chomsky's new formulation of Merge and Minimalism, from the point of view of...