Open AccessLanguage: UG or Not to Be, That Is the Question
Author(s) -
Johan J. Bolhuis,
Ian Tattersall,
Noam Chomsky,
Robert C. Berwick
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002063
Subject(s) - biology , cognition , cognitive science , linguistics , language evolution , psychology , neuroscience , philosophy
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.
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