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The faculty of language: what's special about it?
Cognition · 2005 · Vol. 95(2) · pp. 201–236
Steven Pinker✉(William James College)Ray Jackendoff(Brandeis University)
Language and cultural evolutionSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationLanguage Development and DisordersRecursion (computer science)PhonologyLinguisticsLanguage acquisitionPsychologySyntaxGrammarUniversal grammarPerceptionSpeech perception
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HumansLanguageLinguisticsSpeech PerceptionVerbal Behavior
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