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    • Language from a biological perspective

      Mohinish Shukla

      Volume 30 Issue 1 February 2005 pp 119-127

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    • Keywords

       

      Communication; cortex; evolution; language; minimalism

    • Abstract

       

      The faculty of language is unique to the human species. This implies that there are human-specific biological changes that lie at the basis of human language. However, it is not clear what the nature of such changes are, and how they could be shaped by evolution. In this paper, emphasis is laid on describing language in a Chomskyan manner, as a mental object. This serves as a standpoint to speculate about the biological basis of the emergence and evolution of language.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      Mohinish Shukla1

      1. Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Via Beirut 2-4, Trieste - 34014, Italy

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      Published
      February 2005

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