Chomsky suggested that children are born with an innate ability to learn language and grammar is a vital skill needed for children to learn language According to Chomsky, the human brain is ready to ...

Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work in linguistics has earned him the Kyoto Prize and the Helmholtz Medal. He writes and lectures widely ...

Philosopher Barry Smith argues that language is our most important uniquely human attribute and examines Noam Chomsky's idea of a universal grammar. Show more Barry Smith argues that language is our ...

FEW disciplines are so strongly associated with a single figure: Einstein in physics and Freud in psychology, perhaps. But Noam Chomsky is the man who revolutionised linguistics. Since he wrote ...

After providing a brief biography, James McGilvray spends the greater part of this well-written primer discussing Chomsky's work on language, the mind and the whole nature of science. That some of ...

Recently, Chomsky and colleagues (Bolhuis, Tattersal, Chomsky, & Berwick, 2014) published an article entitled How Could Language Have Evolved? The chief irony of the title is that its authors ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a novel initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state government is launching the 'Kerala Dialogue' -- a debate series on new concepts and development models. A series of ...

An expert in the origins of language says every pressure to create a universal one is matched by ones to retain them. University of Auckland Emeritus Professor Michael Corballis says as long as there ...