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Direct linkJackendoff, Ray; Pinker, Steven – Cognition, 2005
In a continuation of the conversation with Fitch, Chomsky, and Hauser on the evolution of language, we examine their defense of the claim that the uniquely human, language-specific part of the language faculty (the ''narrow language faculty'') consists only of recursion, and that this part cannot be considered an adaptation to communication. We…
Descriptors: Syntax, Diachronic Linguistics, Animals, Psycholinguistics
