Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species | john hawks weblog - 0 views
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the evolution of human minds is mainly about the evolution of language
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the brain has a strongly innate ability to learn language, so much so that the grammars of natural languages are confined to a small range of possibilities.
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the brain has a strongly innate ability to learn language, so much so that the grammars of natural languages are confined to a small range of possibilities. But also intrinsic to Chomsky is the idea that the neural underpinnings of language were not themselves selected for their function in language but instead for some other function.
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