ivanbaracus

Have you heard of Barrett Brown and his "Pursuance" project that's also doing something similar with investigative journalism. What are your thoughts?

Have you seen Pickering and Garrod's work on dialogue (in particular the 2021 book "Understanding Dialogue")- arguing that turn-taking and joint activities have influenced the creation of language into prosodic segments, suggesting that turn-taking is universal while other grammatical concepts (like recursion) need not be? What do you think about it?

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Also, what do you think of Tomasello's series of books, "A Natural History of Human Thinking," "A Natural History of Human Morality," and "Becoming Human"? They seem very much in line with your work.

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Finally (I know too many questions, sorry!): Regarding your differences with Chomsky, do you not see his ideas as highly influential in terms of psycholinguistics and in particular "surprisal" models of sentence processing using probabilistic context free grammars (like Roger Levy's work)? I don't see how these models would work without the hierarchical structures inherent in Chomsky's vision of language.