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Why Only Us

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Why Only Us

By Robert C. Berwick, Noam Chomsky

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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."A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language."-New York Review of BooksWe 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 tha...Show more

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9780262533492

Publisher

MIT Press Ltd

Published year

2017

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1

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Why Only Us

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Paperback

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