PLoS Biology (Feb 2015)

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

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002063
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 2
p. e1002063

Abstract

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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.