Language: UG or not to be, that is the question

Johan J Bolhuis; Ian Tattersall; Noam Chomsky; Robert C Berwick

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002063

Language: UG or not to be, that is the question

Johan J Bolhuis
, Ian Tattersall
, Noam Chomsky
, Robert C Berwick

American Museum of Natural History
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Language is not the same as speech or communication; rather, it is a computational cognitive system. It has appeared very recently, consistent with a minimalist view of language's hierarchical syntactic structure.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e1002063
Journal	PloS Biology [E]
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002063
Publication status	Published - Feb 2015

Keywords

Biological Evolution
Humans
Language

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