The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

The idea of a biologically evolved, universal grammar with linguistic content is a myth,
perpetuated by three spurious explanatory strategies of generative linguists. To make …

This target article presents a plausible evolutionary scenario for the emergence of the neural
preconditions for language in the hominid lineage. In pleistocene primate lineages there …

Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be
explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

The concepts of the innateness, universality, species-specificity, and autonomy of the human
language capacity have had an extreme impact on the psycholinguistic debate for over thirty …

Abstracts Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot
be explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are
intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language …

A fundamental goal of linguistic theory is to explain how natural languages are acquired.
This paper describes some recent findings on how learners acquire syntactic knowledge for …

This paper explores a variety of different versions of the thesis that natural language is
involved in human thinking. It distinguishes amongst strong and weak forms of this thesis …

Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are
all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the …