What is the nature of our knowledge of language?

To address this broad question, a group of faculty at Harvard have launched an inter-disciplinary research effort, uniting individuals from different schools (Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Medical School, Graduate School of Education) and departments (Linguistics, Psychology, Neurology, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Computer Science, Philosophy). Through seminars, workshops, and collaborative research grants, our aim is to reveal how the methods and theories of different disciplines can be united to build a better understanding of how language evolved, develops within the child, is deployed in its mature form, breaks down due to selective neurological deficits, and can be instantiated in both computer hardware and software.