The advances in natural language processing and AI may be useful for some purposes, but they tell us little about the nature of language and human cognition. Studying the human brain is difficult due to ethical reasons, and even the brains of animals...

Noam discusses the idea that there is only one human language and how diversity in languages is superficial.[00:03] One human language as a concept of unity- Diversity of languages in the world and historical influences- Embracing diversity while ack...