Restrictiveness matters

Insightful critics like @davidadger have argued that languages are nevertheless restricted in important ways that can’t be explained by simplicity interacting with use. https://t.co/SUUIRVI9A5

Also, a thoughtful commentary on my article from @davidadger which has got me thinking seriously about the compatibility of apparently different views of the nature and origins of the language faculty. https://t.co/giQFvLArG9 11/

@ElliotMurphy91 @wmatchin @aucksAdventures @hartmast @abenitezburraco but of course if you don't have a language-ready brain and cognitive mechanisms to support processing hierarchies that's a non-starter. I think @davidadger touches on this in his paper i

@glupyan @wmatchin @leraboroditsky @davidadger @mcmacdonald In fact, there are interesting ways in which our co-evolutionary work may be consonant with some of Chomsky’s views on the nature of the language faculty, as David points out in his thoughtful cri