By 1967, it was clear to Eric Lenneberg that reconstructing the phylogenetic history of
language should require the adoption of a non-functional (or Owenian) homology concept …

Unlike most scientific disciplines, the origin of biolinguistics is so recent that, to a large
extent, its history has been written by some of its main protagonists, and not by historians …

Among the early pioneers of the biolinguistic enterprise (on which see Jenkins 2000, 2004,
and Di Sciullo & Boeckx 2011), the names of Noam Chomsky and Eric Lenneberg stand out …

Architecture: A Biolinguistic Perspective, author Bridget D. Samuels delivers a contemporary
Chomsky-like interpretation of how linguistics—specifically phonology, the study of sound …

It is a widely shared opinion among specialists that language is an evolutionary innovation,
or that it contains some key evolutionary innovations. However, such claims are not based …

Biolinguistics, construed broadly as the study of human language from multiple biological
viewpoints, was first placed on a solid modern foundation by Eric Lenneberg's impressive …

In this article we offer a detailed assessment of current approaches to the origins of
language, with a special foots on their historical and theoretical underpinnings. It is a widely …

'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution'is a famous dictum of the
biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky. To 'make sense'of a phenomenon is to (begin to) explain …

With the launch of this journal, the term 'biolinguistics' gains new visibility and credibility, but
a clear definition has yet to emerge. In their Editorial in the journal's inaugural issue, Boeckx …

Linguists have frequently borrowed concepts from other scientific and academic disciplines.
This has been possible because language has similarities to the objects of study of these …