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Dark Matter of the Mind

The logical issue of claims of recursion

Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch (2002) claimed that recursion is the fundamental basis for language, the sole member of the FLN (Narrow Faculty of Language):…
Dark Matter of the Mind

Thoughts on Diversity

My newest article appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education on April 30, 2017. “In a Pirahã village along the Maici River in Brazil,…
Dark Matter of the Mind

Translation for an interesting Piraha text

Sept. 29 A MFX3 (younger guy) 0001C6.MP4 00:00:17 Ti baabihia saagoai ‘Am I getting ill?’ (joking comment made by Kaiowa to himself as he…
Kaiowa of the Piraha people
Dark Matter of the Mind

A discussion of “Understanding Recursion and Looking for Self-Embedding in Pirahã”

A discussion of Understanding Recursion and Looking for Self-Embedding in Pirahã, by Raiane Oliveira Salles, Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/26480/26480.PDF In the…
Piraha villagers along the Maici River
Dark Matter of the Mind

Who’s afraid of the big bad Wolfe? Apparently everyone.

Gibberish meets Wolfe: Recursion is Just a State of Mind Tom Wolfe’s new book, The Kingdom of Speech, continues to be the object of…
Dark Matter of the Mind

How Language Began

My newest book, after Dark Matter of the Mind, is called How Language Began: the Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention (due out in Spring…
How Language Began book cover
Dark Matter of the Mind

Overview of my new book

Pending publication with University of Chicago press, here is the overview of my new book, Dark Matter of the Mind. “Is it in our nature to…
Cover of Dark Matters of the Mind
Dark Matter of the Mind

What would it take to show that something is an instinct?

I believe that there is evidence for instincts and innate capacities in all creatures. But I believe that the evidence presented is often weak.…
Dark Matter of the Mind

Homesigns: Excerpt from Dark Matter of the Mind

So far, we have seen nothing in grammar, gestures, or other aspects of language that would lead us to believe that anything needs to…
handsigning illustration
Dark Matter of the Mind

Out of Africa

We are all out of Africa. But does this hold true of Homo sapiens or only our earlier ancestors, such as Homo erectus? In…
Dark Matter of the Mind

Chomskyan vs. Greenbergian Universals

Now that my latest book, Dark Matter of the Mind: A Culturally Articulated Conception of the Unconscious, has been sent to the publisher, I…
Dark Matter of the Mind cover

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