{"id":5397,"date":"2013-09-23T05:01:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T09:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2013-09-23T01:02:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T05:02:30","slug":"ling-lunch-926-massimo-piattelli-palmarini-university-of-arizona-visiting-scholar-at-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/09\/23\/ling-lunch-926-massimo-piattelli-palmarini-university-of-arizona-visiting-scholar-at-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 9\/26 -  Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/dingo.sbs.arizona.edu\/~massimo\/\">Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini<\/a> (University of Arizona\/MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Steps to the Physics of Language<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Thursday, September 26, 12:30-1:45p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The study of complex systems seems to affirm the Thompson-Turing claim that \u0093some physical processes are of very general occurrence.\u0094 Notably, those involving Fibonacci-based \u0093golden\u0094 forms, ubiquitous in nature, and a number of mathematical models standard in modern physics (matrix representation of operators, with associated eigenvalues and eigenvectors expressing directional stability). This lends immediate interest to the observation that the repeated  structural motif in the human syntactic system, the X-bar schema, is likewise a \u0093golden\u0094 form (Piattelli-Palmarini and Uriagereka 2008, Medeiros 2008, Piattelli-Palmarini and Medeiros in preparation) and leads us to inquire whether whatever is behind the natural ubiquity of such phenomena, in other domains, might possibly be at work in language as well. If so, this peculiar aspect of human phrase structure (the X-bar configuration) would fall under Chomsky\u0092s (2005) \u0093third factor\u0094, a factor about language which is neither encoded in the particulars of our genome, nor learned from the environment, but determined by domain-general principles beyond the organism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (University of Arizona\/MIT) Title: Steps to the Physics of Language Date\/Time: Thursday, September 26, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 The study of complex systems seems to affirm the Thompson-Turing claim that \u0093some physical processes are of very general occurrence.\u0094 Notably, those involving Fibonacci-based \u0093golden\u0094 forms, ubiquitous in nature, and a number of mathematical models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5399,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}