This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Noam Chomsky’s political views attract so ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American To read the headline accompanying Ibbotson ...

Noam Chomsky poses in his office at MIT.(Ulf Andersen/Getty Images) At the age of 87, and with his seminal work 'Syntactic Structures' about to turn 60, Noam Chomsky is still thinking about ...

Tom Wolfe’s new book The Kingdom of Speech has started a row that promises to be the literary spat of the season The arcane study of language has a new literary entrant: the famed New Journalism ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a subject of fascination and concern for many years. In previous interviews with renowned linguists Noam Chomsky and Ray Jackendoff, Tehran Times explored their ...

Annabelle Lukin has received internal research funding grants from Macquarie University. In his recent speech accepting the Sydney Peace Prize, Chomsky returned to a recurrent theme from his work in ...

Humans are often thought to be the only animals capable of language. But it’s difficult to prove a negative like this because we’ll never definitively know the subjective interior monologues of other ...