Marlee Matlin has won an Oscar, and she’s appeared in countless films and television shows. Yet she, too, has faced a common Deaf dilemma: how to claim equitable access to information, when one lives ...

A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. By Carl Zimmer For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato ...

In my previous post, Universal Scenes of Experience and the Emergence of Grammar, I discussed the trajectory of the emergence of grammar. In this post, I continue this theme by asking: Why did ...

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