People often talk about music as if it were language. Leonard Bernstein even recorded a series of lectures applying Chomsky’s theory of generative grammar to music. Chomsky himself…
Languages are not a simple matter of grammar. Any language policy must consider what is known about language from the fields of pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics. Here I collected…
Note: This is an edited version of my side of a discussion on an education technology mailing list.
Warning: May contain spoilers for the easily spoiled.
