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First paper of the year published in @biolinguistics: A Forum contribution by José-Luis Mendívil-Giró on "On the Limits of Functionalism: A Reply to Bierl (2025)".
Read/download here for free: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.2163… #OpenAccess
New brief by Chris Collins out now in @biolinguistics, commenting on the theoretical framework for natural language #syntax based on Hopf algebra by Matilde Marcolli, Noam Chomsky, & Robert C. Berwick.
Read/download here for free: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.2289… #OpenAccess
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Straight into the lion's den! doi.org/10.5964/bioling.2247… After showing the AF-MTG connection in chimps, I saw a need to tie this to the Faculty of Language and its MERGE core. If AF-MTG underpins FLN, its presence in chimps = continuous evolution from our LCA.
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New Forum contribution in @biolinguistics by @YannickBecker7: "The Arcuate Fascicle Middle Temporal Gyrus Connection in Chimpanzees: A Missing Link in Language Evolution?"
Read/download for free: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.2247… #openaccess
🆕📙🔍 New book review out in @biolinguistics: Elliot Murphy discusses @GregoryHickok's new book "Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language".
Read/download here for free (#openAccess): doi.org/10.5964/bioling.2146…
🆕📰New paper in @biolinguistics by Siaka Sangaré and Carlo Cecchetto: "Are Languages Context-Sensitive in Their Syntax or in Their Morphology? Revisiting the Case of Bambara"
Read/download here for free (#openAccess): doi.org/10.5964/bioling.1930…
Happy Holidays from the Editorial Team at @biolinguistics. We've just posted the End-of-Year Notice in which we take stock, present some download and usage statistics, and preview what 2026 will bring for the journal.
Read/Download here for free: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.2131…
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🆕📰New paper (the last one for this year) in our Forum section: "Toward a Bio-Ethological 4E Linguistics: Language as Life in Mind and Behavior" by Bernd Bierl.
Read/download for free here: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.2060… #OpenAccess
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🆕📰New paper out in @biolinguistics by Murphy et al.: "Fundamental Principles of Linguistic Structure Are Not Represented by ChatGPT"
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New paper out in @biolinguistics: "Smuggling and Labeling Theory" by Andreas Blümel and Chris Collins.
Read/download here for free: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.1722…
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What have we learned about language (and not speech) from sign languages? Join the workshop “Sign Language Grammars, Parsing Models, & the Brain”.
Call for papers and details: sign-language-grammars-parse…
@biolinguistics will be publishing the proceedings as a special issue in 2026!
🆕📰New Forum contribution by José-Luis Mendívil-Giró out in @biolinguistics:
"The Number Sense and the Language Instinct: Relating
Syntax and Arithmetic in Human Cognition"
Read/download now for free: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.1728…
The year is coming to an end, so is another volume of
@biolinguistics. The Editorial Team takes this as an opportunity to reflect on the journal’s performance and discuss current and future issues.
Read/Download the end-of-year notice: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.1641… #OpenAccess
New paper out in @biolinguistics (last one for this volume/year):
Jason Ginsburg: "Constraining Free Merge"
Read/download here for free: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.1401… #OpenAccess
New #BookReview of Ryan Nefdt’s "The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics: A Contemporary Outlook" (2024) just published in @biolinguistics:
Konstantinos Voudouris & Niall Roe - "Metatheoretical Linguistics: A Philosopher’s Guide"
Read/download here: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.1591…
- @j_carchidi: "Creative Minds Like Ours? Large Language Models and the Creative Aspect of Language Use"
Read/download full text here for free: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.1350… #OpenAccess
- @jeffreywatumull: "Language Is a “Quite Useless” Tool: A Rejoinder to Fedorenko, Piantadosi, and Gibson’s “Language Is Primarily a Tool for Communication Rather Than Thought”
Read/download full text here for free: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.1522… #OpenAccess
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Happy to have an article out in @biolinguistics today on LLMs and the creative aspect of (human) language use.
My thanks to @ElliotMurphy91 for some early encouragement on this! (And Mark Baker and Stephen Pulman who are, fortunately for them, X-less.)
doi.org/10.5964/bioling.1350…
🆕📰 New paper by Edward Ruoyang Shi just published in @biolinguistics:
"Across the Boundary: The Formalization of the Interface Between Episodic Memory and Narrow Syntax Computation of Human Language"
Read/download here for free: doi.org/10.5964/bioling.1464… (#OpenAccess)
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