Why Only Us av Robert C. Berwick, Noam (Laureate Professor Roam Agency) Chomsky

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<b>Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans'' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it.</b><p><b>“A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language.”<br>—<i>New York Review of Books</i></b></p><p>We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language—“the language faculty”—raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished scholars—a computer scientist and a linguist—addresses the enduring question of the evolution of language.</p><p>Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky explain that unt