It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are
intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language …

The idea of a biologically evolved, universal grammar with linguistic content is a myth,
perpetuated by three spurious explanatory strategies of generative linguists. To make …

Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be
explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

Abstracts Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot
be explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are
all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the …

This target article presents a plausible evolutionary scenario for the emergence of the neural
preconditions for language in the hominid lineage. In pleistocene primate lineages there …

The concepts of the innateness, universality, species-specificity, and autonomy of the human
language capacity have had an extreme impact on the psycholinguistic debate for over thirty …

According to a" selective"(as opposed to" instructive") model of human language capacity,
people come to know more than they experience. The discrepancy between experience and …

The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …