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The language capacity: architecture and evolution by Chomsky, Noam

“…There is substantial evidence that the human language capacity (LC) is a species-specific biological property, essentially unique to humans, invariant among…”
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Language architecture and its import for evolution by Chomsky, Noam

“…•The capacity for language emerged along with or not long after the appearance of Homo sapiens.•The complexity/variety of languages derives from changes since…”
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Some Puzzling Foundational Issues : The Reading Program by Chomsky, Noam

“…This is an annotated transcription of Noam Chomsky's keynote presentation at the University of Reading, in May 2017. Here, Chomsky reviews some foundational…”
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Three Factors in Language Design by Chomsky, Noam

“…The biolinguistic perspective regards the language faculty as an "organ of the body," along with other cognitive systems. Adopting it, we expect to find three…”
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El aislamiento de Estados Unidos by Chomsky, Noam

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Simplicity and the form of grammars by Chomsky, Noam

“…The goal of theory construction is explanation: for language, theory for particular languages (grammar) and for the faculty of language FoL (the innate…”
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All or nothing: No half-Merge and the evolution of syntax by Berwick, Robert C, Chomsky, Noam

“…In their Essay on the evolution of human language, Martins and Boeckx seek to refute what they call the "half-Merge fallacy"-the conclusion that the most…”
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Generative Grammar and the Faculty of Language : Insights, Questions, and Challenges by Chomsky, Noam, Gallego, Ángel J, Ott, Dennis

“…This paper provides an overview of what we take to be the key current issues in the field of Generative Grammar, the study of the human Faculty of Language. We…”
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Evolution, brain, and the nature of language by Berwick, Robert C, Friederici, Angela D, Chomsky, Noam, Bolhuis, Johan J

“…Language serves as a cornerstone for human cognition, yet much about its evolution remains puzzling. Recent research on this question parallels Darwin's…”
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How could language have evolved? by Bolhuis, Johan J, Tattersall, Ian, Chomsky, Noam, Berwick, Robert C

“…The evolution of the faculty of language largely remains an enigma. In this essay, we ask why. Language's evolutionary analysis is complicated because it has…”
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Of Minds and Language by Chomsky, Noam

“…This article reviews, and rethinks, a few leading themes of the biolinguistic program since its inception in the early 1950s, at each stage influenced by…”
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Poverty of the Stimulus Revisited by Berwick, Robert C., Pietroski, Paul, Yankama, Beracah, Chomsky, Noam

“…A central goal of modern generative grammar has been to discover invariant properties of human languages that reflect “the innate schematism of mind that is…”
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Biolinguistic Explorations: Design, Development, Evolution by Chomsky, Noam

“…Biolinguistic inquiry investigates the human language faculty as an internal biological property. This article traces the development of biolinguistics from…”
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The evolution of the language faculty: Clarifications and implications by Fitch, W. Tecumseh, Hauser, Marc D., Chomsky, Noam

“…In this response to Pinker and Jackendoff's critique, we extend our previous framework for discussion of language evolution, clarifying certain distinctions…”
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Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Chomsky, Noam

“…Chomsky argues that the real 'rogue' states are the United States and its allies…”
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Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Nature and the Social Order by Chomsky, Noam

“…Chomsky lifts the veil of distortions that conceals the workings of history and social policy…”
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Culture of Terrorism by Chomsky, Noam

“…Chomsky ends his preface to Culture of Terrorism with the words, 'As the latest inheritors of a grim tradition, we should at least have the integrity to look…”
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The Dewey Lectures 2013: What Kind of Creatures Are We? Lecture I: What Is Language? by Chomsky, Noam

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An interview on linguistic variation with Noam Chomsky by Chomsky, Noam

“…This is an interview to Noam Chomsky (MIT) on linguistic variation…”
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Problems of projection by Chomsky, Noam

“…► Merge applies in its simplest form. ► Minimal search makes use of structural rather than linear distance. ► Labels are required for interpretation at the…”
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