• lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    Pro- and anti-Chomsky’s Universal Grammar papers were flamewars and a touchstone of mine for a while.

    (Everett convinced me Chomsky might be wrong).

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      5 months ago

      Not sure if you’re still into it, and if you knew this already, but I’m name-dropping “Constructive Grammars” as an interesting thing

  • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I got a citation from a group once, in a footnote, which was just basically “we think the conclusions of [32] are wrong, but we will not comment on why”. 1., its because your conclusions were in conflict with ours, and 2. Well, OK then, I’ll do better in the future will all the constructive critisism you are providing!

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    6 months ago

    Did a whole review on human evolution and how it correlates to how birds, dolphins, and primates have developed the ability to use tools. There was one paper from the 90s that everyone seemed to be replying to, I got a lot of good info