When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a... →
Noam Chomsky
As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array... →
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities... →
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer... →
Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.
Carol P. Christ
Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.
Helena Christensen
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica... →
Alonzo Church