How Deeply Human Is Language?

Yosef Grodzinsky is currently Director of the Neurolinguistics Lab at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, and Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a scientific associate at the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research, University Hospital Düsseldorf. He is the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Award and was formerly Senior Canada Research Chair in Neurolinguistics at the Departments of Linguistics and Neurology/Neurosurgery at McGill University.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Is bigger better?
Part 1 Where We are: The Language Sciences
Chapter 1. Grammars, old and new
Chapter 2: Hints from current day linguistic theory
Part 2 Where we are: The technology
Chapter 3. From Perceptrons to Deep Learning
Chapter 4 Dreams about Talking Machines: Large Language Models
Part 3: Getting under the hood
Chapter 5. A duel: Science vs. Technology
Chapter 6. Poking linguistic holes in LLMs (ChatGPT included)
Part 4 The Brain’s Language Code
Chapter 7. A mosaic of neurolinguistic modules
Chapter 8. Modeling the linguistic brain with LLMs Coda: are LLMs models for the brain’s language mechanisms?
Epilogue: shall we work together?