Hamann Language Acquisition Chapter 1 : How Language Comes to Children
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Pinker 1994:18.The Language Instinct. Pelican.London. Language is not a cultural artifact that we learn the way we learn to tell time.... Instead, it is a distinct piece of biological makeup of our brains. Language is a complex, specialized skill, which develops in the child spontaneously, without conscious effort or formal instruction, is deployed without awareness of its underlying logic, is qualitatively the same in every individual, and is distinct from more general abilities to process information or behave intelligently. For these reasons .... I prefer the admittedly quaint term "instinct".
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تاریخ انتشار 2006