Why Only Us: Language and Evolution
Book by Noam Chomsky and Robert C. Berwick
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Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and our remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it.“A loosely ... Google Books
Originally published: 2016
Authors: Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky
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Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ...
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“A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language.”
Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific.
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This book by two distinguished scholars -- a computer scientist and a linguist -- addresses the enduring question of the evolution of language. Robert Berwick ...
Apr 7, 2017 · We question that argument because it ignores the origin of words, even though Berwick and Chomsky acknowledge that words evolved before grammar.
Complex linguistic rule systems are now a thing of the past; they have been replaced by much simpler, hence more evolutionarily plausible, approaches. Then too, ...
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Posted: Dec 9, 2015
Posted: Dec 9, 2015
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Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ...
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Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ...
Feb 24, 2016 · In short, as language exists only in our species, without precedent elsewhere, then it did not evolve from some simpler form of communication.