Oxford Language and thought

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In mid-2004, the organizers of the Summer Courses at the University of the
Basque Country (UBC), San Sebastia´n Campus, contacted me because they
wanted to organize a special event in2006to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of our summer program. Their idea was to arrange a conference in
which Noam Chomsky would figure as the main speaker.
What immediately came to mind was the Royaumont debate between
Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky, organized in October 1975by Massimo
Piattelli-Palmarini and published in a magnificent book (Piattelli-Palmarini
1980) that greatly influenced scholars at the UBC and helped to put linguistics
on a new footing at the University, particularly in the Basque Philology department. A second Royaumont was naturally out of the question, since Jean Piaget
was no longer with us and also because Chomsky’s own theories had developed
spectacularly since 1975, stimulating experts in other disciplines (cognitive
science, biology, psychology, etc.) to join in contribut

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