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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 ability to acquire it. * “A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language.” ― * New York Review of Books We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language―“the language faculty”―raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished scholars―a computer scientist and a linguist―addresses the enduring question of the evolution of language. Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky explain that until recently the evolutionary question could not be properly posed, because we did not have a clear idea of how to define “language” and therefore what it was that had evolved. But since the Minimalist Program, developed by Chomsky and others, we know the key ingredients of language and

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Author

Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262333351

Category

reference

Subjects

Linguistics, Science, Language Learning

Rating

4.2 / 5 (111 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14