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Generative linguistics and the neural basis of language, with Noam Chomsky

The Language Neuroscience Podcast

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The Influence of Linguistics on Brain and Language Research

You need to know what language is before you can study the acquisition of it or the processing of it. But I also think that people that know too much about linguistics don't tend to do the greatest brain and language studies. They tend to be always investigating really esoteric concepts from the latest trending theory, which is probably going to be abandoned in a few years anyway. You kind of want to study the big picture things that we can actually get at with the brain like things like nouns versus verbs,.

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