2 papers
cs.CL2026
Frege in the Flesh: Biolinguistics and the Neural Enforcement of Syntactic Structures
Elliot Murphy
Biolinguistics is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the biological foundations, evolution, and genetic basis of human language. It treats language as an innate biological o…
cs.CL2025
Merge-based syntax is mediated by distinct neurocognitive mechanisms: A clustering analysis of comprehension abilities in 84,000 individuals with language deficits across nine languages
Elliot Murphy, Rohan Venkatesh, Edward Khokhlovich +1
In the modern language sciences, the core computational operation of syntax, 'Merge', is defined as an operation that combines two linguistic units (e.g., 'brown', 'cat') to form a…