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We are constantly talking to ourselves, but our internal monologues have received surprisingly little attention from philosophers, until now.

Steven Pinker and the Fight Over Academia’s Future | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson

walks and impress ~ describe ~ description, but where the final result is still a word that needs to be remembered in the lexicon. In contrast, inflectional morphology is usually freely predictable, so the lexicon (like a printed dictionary) doesnt need to store all the regular forms, though it does need to have entries for irregular forms like sang. On the other hand, some entities larger than a traditional word also need to be stored. While compounding is sometimes transparent, so that we...