The Puzzle of Human Origins
African population structure and the origins of the Boas-Chomsky universal
The biological capacity of our species for language is closely-tied to our capacity for creativity and innovation. Fundamental to this capacity is Chomsky’s Universal Grammar. At the heart of Chomsky’s idea about the language capacity is our unique ability to form an infinite number and variety of structured sentences from a finite lexicon. Other specie…
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