Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert. Eric uses his passion for writing about ...

In an earlier post, Is There A Language Instinct?, based on my book, The Language Myth, I observed that the philosopher and linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky, argues that Universal Grammar can be ...

What makes language special is part of what makes us special, so understanding what language is made of and how we learn it brings us closer to our human nature. Is language special because it runs on ...

People instinctively organise a new language according to a logical hierarchy, not simply by learning which words go together, as computer translation programs do. The finding may add further support ...