Language capacities: Is grammar special?
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Some of the more heated debates in the cognitive sciences revolve around the nature of human language. Is there innate linguistic knowledge? Does language require the ability to learn and use symbolic rules, or can it be explained solely through associative capacities? And how autonomous is language — is the ability to learn to speak the result of more general social, cognitive and perceptual abilities, or is there a separate language module, instinct or organ?
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999