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Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. A
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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 abili
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Explores the cultural side of language evolution. This book proposes a framework based on linguistic selection and self-organization. It investigates how partic