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Matt Spike
@matspike
Language/CogSci/Evolution: complexity, conventionality, information etc. Teaching Fellow @ UoE CLE/PPLS Mastodon - @matspike@fediscience.org
Dec 14, 2022 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
Why do linguists just assume mental representations for language when neuro folk think that's whack? OK, in turn:
1. Linguists agree on *nothing* & often seem to (or act like they) really hate each other
2. Language is WILDLY complicated & variation is profound
... 1/ 3. DESPITE all this, most/all descriptive frameworks *default* to type/token symbolic combinatorial notations etc & the decades-long bitterly ad-hominem shitshow that passes for central debate in ling hinges on issues incomprehensible to outsiders
4. How ELSE would this work?
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