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The Language Faculty that Wasn't: A Usage-Based Account of Natural Language Recursion [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
In the generative tradition, the language faculty has been shrinking—perhaps to include only the mechanism of recursion. This paper argues that even this view of the language faculty is too expansive.
Morten H Christiansen, Morten H Christiansen, Morten H Christiansen, Nick eChater   +3 more
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Editorial: Is the Language Faculty Nonlinguistic? [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
A line of research in cognitive science over several decades has been dedicated to mapping a hypothetically innate, language-specific cognitive system, a faculty that allows human infants to acquire languages natively without formal instruction and within short periods of time.
N J Enfield, Ansaldo U, Enfield N J
exaly   +5 more sources

How Culture and Biology Interact to Shape Language and the Language Faculty. [PDF]

Top Cogn Sci, 2020
AbstractRecent work suggests that linguistic structure develops through cultural evolution, as a consequence of the repeated cycle of learning and use by which languages persist. This work has important implications for our understanding of the evolution of the cognitive basis for language; in particular, human language and the cognitive capacities ...
Smith K.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Broca and the General Language Faculty

Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2013
In this paper, I examine the important impact of Paul Broca on our understanding of language. Broca not only discovered the brain area responsible for language production, but he also highlighted the importance of a general language faculty – as ...
Grazia Basile
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At grammatical faculty of language, flies outsmart men. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Using a symbolic dynamics and a surrogate data approach, we show that the language exhibited by common fruit flies Drosophila ('D.') during courtship is as grammatically complex as the most complex human-spoken modern languages. This finding emerges from
Ruedi Stoop, Patrick Nüesch, Ralph Lukas Stoop, Leonid A Bunimovich   +3 more
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Cartography: Innateness or Convergent Cultural Evolution?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Haspelmath argues that linguists who conduct comparative research and try to explain patterns that are general across languages can only consider two sources of these patterns: convergent cultural evolution of languages, which provides functional ...
Deniz Satık
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Bilinguals have a single computational system but two compartmentalized phonological grammars: Evidence from code-switching

Glossa, 2022
Classic linguistic models, such as Chomsky’s minimalist schematization of the human language faculty, were typically based on a ‘monolingual ideal’. More recently, models have been extended to bilingual cognition.
Leah Gosselin
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