The Secrets of Words

by Noam Chomsky and Andrea Moro

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Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries.

In The Secrets of Words, influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain. Moro draws Chomsky out on today’s misplaced euphoria about artificial intelligence (Chomsky sees “lots of hype and propaganda” coming from Silicon Valley), the study of the brain (Chomsky points out that findings from brain studies in the 1950s never made it into...Read more
  • ISBN10 0262046717
  • ISBN13 9780262046718
  • Publish Date 3 May 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Imprint The MIT Press