Language from a biological perspective |
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Authors: | Mohinish Shukla |
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Affiliation: | (1) Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy |
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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. |
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Keywords: | Communication cortex evolution language minimalism |
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