Robert C Berwick
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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...