The faculty of language: what's special about it?

2005/01/25 by Steven Pinker, Ray Jackendoff · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Language Development and Disorders #Language and cultural evolution #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2004.08.004

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