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faculty of language in the narrow and broad sense: a standalone construct

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Language evolution

distinction between the faculty of language broadly, shared with other species, and a narrow uniquely human core hypothesized to consist of recursion.

In language evolution, faculty of language in the narrow and broad sense refers to distinction between the faculty of language broadly, shared with other species, and a narrow uniquely human core hypothesized to consist of recursion. This meaning comes from Hauser (2002) in Science.[1]

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recursion4 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four self-referring constructs sense3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs species4 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Hauser, M. D., Chomsky, N., & Fitch, W. T. (2002). The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? Science, 298(5598), 1569-1579. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.298.5598.1569

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