Mayberry is a contemporary philosopher working in the philosophy of language and linguistics, with contributions to debates surrounding language learnability and the logical problem of language acquisition. Their work engages with formal arguments about what can and cannot be inferred from primary linguistic data, situating them within the broader nativist-empiricist debate in philosophy of mind and linguistics.
Developed formal learnability arguments concerning the underdetermination of grammar by primary linguistic data
Contributed to the philosophical analysis of the poverty of the stimulus debate
Applied logical argument structures to questions of linguistic nativism