Of Minds and Language

📖 The Scoop

1. Introduction -- Part 1: Overtures -- 2. Opening Remarks, Noam Chomsky -- 3. The nature of Merge: Consequences for Language, Mind, and Biology, Cedric Boeckx -- 4. Evoling: The Nature of the Language Faculty, Marc D. Hauser -- 5. The Foundational Abstractions, C. R. Gallistel -- 6. Pointers to a Biology of Language?, Gabriel Dover -- 7. Language in an Epigenetic Framework, Donata Vercelli -- 8. Brain Wiring Optimization and Non-Genomic Nativism, Christopher Cherniak -- Part 2: On Language -- 9. Hierarchy, Merge, and Truth, Wolfram Hinzen -- 10. Two Interfaces, James Higginbotham -- 11. Movement and Concepts of Locality, Luigi Rizzi -- 12. Uninterpretable Features in Syntactic Evolutiion, Juan Uriagereka -- 13. The Brain Differentiates Hierarchical and Probabilistic Grammars, Angela D. Friederici -- 14. Round Table: Language Universals: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Cedric Boeckz, Janet Dean Fodor, Lila Gleitman, Luigi Rizzi -- Part 3: On Acquisition -- 15. Innate Learning and Beyond, Rochel Gelman -- 16. The Learned Component of Language Learning, Lila Gleitman -- 17. Syntactic Acquisition: An Evaluation Measure After All?, Janet Dean Fodor -- 18. Remarks on the Individual Basis for Linguistic Structures, Thomas G. Bever -- Part 4: Open Talks on Open Inquiries -- 19. The Illusion of Biological variation: A Minimalist Approach to the Mind, Marc D. Hauser -- 20. What is There in Universal Grammar? On Innate and Specific Aspects of Language, Itziar Laka -- 21. Individual Differences in Foreigh Sound Perception, Nuria Sebastian-Galles -- 22. Language and the Brain, Angela D. Friederici -- 23. Conclusion, Noam Chomsky.

Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General (fancy, right?)