Language is shaped for social interactions, as well as by the brain
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Language as shaped by the brain.
It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language-specific biological endowment, which encodes universal, but communicatively arbitrary, principles of language structure (a Universal Grammar or UG). How might such a UG have evolved? We argue that UG could not have arisen eithe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0140-525X,1469-1825
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x0800527x