Language as an emergent system
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چکیده
Human language is a biological system: All humans are neurologically predisposed to acquire whatever language they are exposed to in their early years. Language itself is socially transmitted. A rich interaction between genetic (brain) structures and social behavior gives rise to what linguists call a “grammar”, which is the knowledge (part innate, part learned) of language complexity found inside the brain of every speaker. The task of Linguistics, properly a sub-field of Neurobiology in our opinion, is to describe and explain the complex patterns found in all languages. This apparent complexity, with its simpler underlying components, make language an emergent system par excellence. The paradigm of emergence set forth in this volume is very well-suited to the study of Linguistic patterns on at least two distinct (though interrelated) levels.
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